 | Joseph Belcher - 1849 - 490 Seiten
...to stoop as you go through it, and you will avoid many hard thumps." This advice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me ; and I often think of it, when I see pride mortified, and misfortune brought upon people by their carrying their heads too high. Dr. Mather was remarkable for... | |
 | Young people - 1852 - 1020 Seiten
...before you ; hum to stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard thumps.' This advice, tims beat into ray head, has frequently been of use to...upon people by their carrying their heads too high.'' THE LAST QUESTION. A LITTLE boy on his deathbed wns urging his father to repentance, and, fearing he... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1850 - 716 Seiten
...attachment ; and, in a letter written to Dr Samuel Mather, but a few years before his death, he says, " I long much to see again my native place, and to lay my bones there." I shall confine myself, on the present occasion, to the first years of Franklin's life. It would be impossible... | |
 | 1850 - 632 Seiten
...it, and you will avoid many hard thumps.1 ThU »dvice, thus beat into my head, has frequently be«n of use to me; and I often think of it when I »ее pride mortified, and misfortune brought upon people by their carrying their heads too high"... | |
 | 1852 - 454 Seiten
...you; STOOP as you <jo through it, and you ivill miss many hard thumps? This advice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me; and I often...upon people by their carrying their heads too high." This moral, so essentially good in itself, does not need the high recommendation of a Franklin, though... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 Seiten
...you: STOOP as you go through it, and you may miss many hard thumps." This advice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me; and I often...native place, and to lay my bones there. I left it in 1723; I visited it in 1733, 1743, 1753, and 1763. In 1773 I was in England; in 1775 I had a 40 sight... | |
 | Henry Augustus Boardman - 1853 - 432 Seiten
...you : STOOP as you go through it, and you will miss many hard thumps' The advice thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me, and I often...upon people by their carrying their heads too high." People of every avocation may profit by this lesson ; and the clerk who is disposed to take it voluntarily,... | |
 | Henry Augustus Boardman - 1853 - 434 Seiten
...before you: STOOP as you go through it, and you Kill miss many hard thumps' The advice thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me, and I often...upon people by their carrying their heads too high." People of every avocation may profit by this lesson ; and the clerk who is disposed to take it voluntarily,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 Seiten
...you ; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard thumps." This advice, thus beat into my head, has frequently bee'n of use to me ; and I often...high. ' I long much to see again my native place ; and once hoped to lay my bones there. I left it in 1723. I visited it in 1733, 1743, 1753, and 1763; and... | |
 | Margaret Maria Gordon - 1855 - 306 Seiten
...— stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard thumps.' This advice thus beat into my head has frequently been of use to me, and I often...upon people by their carrying their heads too high." " Charity doth not behave itself unseemly, is not easily provoked." — If we but learned charity at... | |
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This advice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me; and I often think of it, when I see pride mortified, and misfortunes brought upon people by their carrying their heads too high. 
