 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1862 - 796 pages
...people, who might have performed the useful labor ! THE WAY TO WEALTH. •i Courteous reader, I have heard that nothing gives an author so great pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Jndge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...working people, who might have performed the useful labor ! THE WAT TO WEALTH. 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.... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1866 - 236 pages
...of thy duties to the living. THE WAY TO WEALTH. DR. BENJAMIN FBANKLIN. 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 nmst have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you.... | |
 | William H. Ablett - Commerce - 1867 - 94 pages
...may prove new and useful. ADDRESS TO " POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC," 1758. " COURTEOUS READER, " I have heard that nothing gives an author so great pleasure as to find his works respectfally quoted by others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am... | |
 | American literature - 1872 - 660 pages
...never failed to speak the right word in the right place. THE WAY TO WEALTH. 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.... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1872 - 984 pages
..."Poor Richard," and subsequently printed under the name of The Way to Wealth : 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 graiified by an incident I am going to relate to you.... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - American literature - 1872 - 658 pages
...never failed to speak the right word in the right place." THE WAY TO WEALTH. COURTEOUS reader, I have heard that nothing gives an author so great pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted byothers. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you.... | |
 | Godfrey Golding - 1873 - 348 pages
...Precept for Practice, and we earnestly commend its perusal to our readers. " 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.... | |
 | Charles Joseph Sherwill Dawe - 1877 - 392 pages
...set on foot Poor Richard's Almanac, famous for its maxims and proverbs.J 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.... | |
 | Godfrey Golding - 1877 - 268 pages
...Precept for Practice, and we earnestly commend its perusal to our readers. " 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.... | |
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I have been, if I may say it without vanity, an eminent author (of almanacs) annually, now a full quarter of a century, my brother authors in the same way, for what reason I know not, have ever been very sparing in their applauses and no other author... 
