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...you go through it, and you will miss ••Many hard thumps.' This advice, thus beat into my he»J, has frequently been of use to me ; and I often think...upon people by their carrying their heads too high. — Dr. Franklin. Gilbert Foliot, Bishop of London, AD, 1161, disliking much Archbishop Becket's pride... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1881 - 926 Seiten
...you ; stoop as you go through, 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." ' Page 130. 1 This war cost England one hundred and fifty millions... | |
 | Justin Winsor, Clarence F. Jewett - 1881 - 740 Seiten
...years. In a letter written from Passy, in 1784, to Samuel Mather, a son of Cotton Mather, he says: " I long much to see again my native place, and to lay my bones there. I left it in 1723; 1 visited it in '733« '743> '753' a°d 1763. In 1773 I was in England; in 1775 I had a sight... | |
 | Justin Winsor - 1882 - 694 Seiten
...years. In a letter written from Passy, in 1784, to Samuel Mather, a son of Cotton Mather, he says : " I long much to see again my native place, and to lay...bones there. I left it in 1 723 ; I visited it in •733. '743- '753' and '763. In 1773 I was in England ; in 1775 I had a sight of it, but could not... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow - 1884 - 558 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 - 330 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... | |
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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. 
