| Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow - 1884 - 556 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. enemy. I did hope to have been there in 1783, but could not obtain my dismission from this employment... | |
| Glasgow sabbath school union - 1884 - 802 Seiten
...you gothrough it, and you will miss many hard thumps." Franklin says, "This advice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me; and I often...mortified, and misfortunes brought upon people by carrying their heads too high." 251. Jesus Receives Outcasts, (verses 23, 24.) — While Mr. Whitefield... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1890 - 268 Seiten
...you; stoop as you go through it, and you will escape many hard thumps.' This advice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me ; and I often...mortified, and misfortunes brought upon people by carrying their heads too high." Cotton Mather married three times, and had fifteen children. He died... | |
| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 Seiten
...you; 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. PASSY, 12 May, 1784 B. FRANKLIN. TO GEORGE WHATLEY, WITH MORAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS. I AM... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 332 Seiten
...they dropped to pieces. 3 A piece of eight (eight reals) : a Spanish dollar, worth about one dollar. has frequently been of use to me ; and I often think...upon people by their carrying their heads too high. — (Letter to Increase Mather^} My father received the governor's letter with some apparent surprise,... | |
| William M. Thayer - 1889 - 510 Seiten
...years afterwards the recipient of this counsel wrote as follows : "This advice, thus beaten into my head, has frequently been of use to me ; and I often...mortified, and misfortunes brought upon people by carrying their heads too high." John Collins was a clerk in the post-office. He revolved the matter... | |
| John Kneeland, Henry Nathan Wheeler - 1891 - 494 Seiten
...you ; STOOP us 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. TO THE REV. DR. LATIIKOP, BOSTON. PHILADELPHIA, 31 May, 1788. me ; but the short time of his stay has... | |
| Emerson Elbridge White - 1893 - 330 Seiten
...you. 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...mortified, and misfortunes brought, upon people by carrying their heads too high." Before honor is humility. ii. SPARE MOMENTS. A boy, poorly dressed,... | |
| Francis Newton Thorpe - 1893 - 540 Seiten
...place, expressed in a letter to Samuel v Mather, written at Passy, May 12, 1784: I long much to see my native place and to lay my bones there. I left it in 1723; I visited it in 1733, 1713, 1753, 1763. In 1773 I wae in England; in 1775 I had a sight of it,... | |
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