 | Chapbooks - 1796 - 34 pages
...intitled, " Poor Richard improved," WRITTEN BY DR. BKNJ. FRANKLIN. Courteous Reader, I have heard, that nothing gives an author so ^great pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1804 - 78 pages
...intitled " Poor Richard's Almanack, fo^ the year 1759." I have heard, that nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. This pleasure I have seldom enjoyed ; fortho' I have been, if I may say it without vanity, an eminent... | |
 | Gleaner - 1805 - 426 pages
...his works respectfully quoted by others. Judge, then, how I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you. I stopped my horse, lately where a great number of people were collect, ed at an auction of merchants' goods. The hour of sale hot being... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 586 pages
...Preface of an old Pensylvania Almanack, intitled, Poor Richard Improved*. COURTEOUS READER, I HAVE heard, that nothing gives an author so great pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you.... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...OF AN OLD PENNSYLTANIAN ALMAN ACK, ENTITLED, POOR RICHARD IMPROVED. COURTEOUS HEADER, I HAVE beard, that nothing gives an author so great pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you.... | |
 | James Plumptre - English drama - 1812 - 424 pages
...house.. I have heard (says the supposed author of the Almanack, Richard Sounders, or POOR RICHARD,) that nothing gives an author so great pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you.... | |
 | 1812 - 314 pages
...sometimes quoted myself with great gravity. Judge then how much I have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you. I stopped my horse lately where a great number of people were collected at an auction of merchant's goods. The hour of sale ťot being... | |
 | 1812 - 314 pages
...intitled " Poor Richard's Almanack, for the year 1758." I have heard, that nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. This pleasure I have seldom enjoyed ; fortho' I have been, if I may say it without vanity, an eminent... | |
 | George Miller - 1813 - 638 pages
...Companion. No. III.] MARCH, 1813. THE AUCTION ROOM; OB, THfc STORY OF FATHER ABRAHAM. •I HAVE heard, that nothing gives an author so great pleasure as...works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. This pleasure I have seldom enjoyed j for though I have been, if I may say it without vanity, an eminent... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1820 - 360 pages
...works respectfully qnoted by others. Jndge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you. I stopped my horse lately, where a great number of people were collected, at an anction of merchants' goods. The hour of the sale not... | |
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Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you. I stopped my horse lately where a great number of people were collected at an auction of merchants 
