 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1811 - 190 pages
...such a turn of thinking, as to have an influence on my conduct through life : for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good, than any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to that book.... | |
 | 1812 - 314 pages
...such a turn of thinking, as to hare an influence on my conduct through life ; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good, than on any other kind of reputation; and if I have been a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1815 - 336 pages
...such a turn of thinking, as to have an influence on my conduct through life : for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good, than any other kind of reputation : and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage pf it to that book.... | |
 | Cotton Mather - Christian life - 1816 - 194 pages
...such a turn of thinking., as tolmv* " an influence on my conduct though life ; for I have always set a " greater value on the character of a doer of good, than any other kind " of reputation ; and if I have been, as you seem ta think, a useful " citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to that... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Authors - 1816 - 298 pages
...purfuits, fomcthing beneficial was ever in contemplation. He juftly fays of himfelf, " I have always fet a greater value on the character of a doer of good, than on any other kind of reputation." He poffefled the rare talent of drawing ufeful leflbns from the conmionclt... | |
 | Joshua Huntington - Funeral sermons - 1817 - 194 pages
...such a turn of thinking, as to have an influence on my conduct through life; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good, than any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been, as you .- ",:ri to think, a useful citizen, the publie owes the advantage of it to that... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1817 - 524 pages
...have an •* j' • - l • '* 3i TC influence . on my conduct through life ; for i have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good, than on any other kind of reputation; and if I have been. . '' '•' -1 -K'TJ! , M*»f as you seem to think,... | |
 | A citizen of Pittsburgh - Readers - 1818 - 276 pages
...such a train of thinking, as to have an influence on my conduct through life : for 1 have always set a. greater value on the character of a doer of good, than any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to that book.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1818 - 1264 pages
...such a turn of thinking as to have an influence on my conduct through life ; for I have always act a greater value on the character of a doer of good,' than on any other kitid of reputation ; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1820 - 360 pages
...thinking as to have an influence on my conduct through life : for I have always set a greater vaJne on the character of a doer of good than any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to that book.... | |
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Good," which, I think, was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor that several leaves of it were torn out, but the remainder gave me such a turn of thinking as to have an influence on my conduct through life; for... 
