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Essays and Letters - Page 101
by Benjamin Franklin - 1821
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The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humourous, Moral ...

Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1839 - 268 pages
...possessor, that seveml leaves of it were torn put ; hut the remainder gave me such a turn of thinking, .is to have an influence on my conduct through life ;...greater value on the character of a doer of good than ainy other kind of repu116 tation ; and if I have heen, as you seem to think, i useful citizen, the...
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The Life and Miscellaneous Writings of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1839 - 96 pages
...boy, I met with a book entitled " Essays to do good," whieh I think was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor, that...leaves of it were torn out ; but the remainder gave me sueh a turn of thinking as to have an influenee on my eonduet through life ; for I have always set...
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The works of Benjamin Franklin: with notes and a life of the ..., Volume 10

Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 572 pages
...I met with a book, entitled "Essays to do Good," which I think was written by your father.* It had been so little regarded by a former possessor, that...greater value on the character of a doer of good, than on any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public...
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The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral ...

Benjamin Franklin - Political science - 1840 - 342 pages
...boy, I met with a book entitled " Essays to do good," which I think was written by your rather. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor, that...such a turn of thinking, as to have an influence on uiy conduct through life ; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good,...
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Biblical Repository and Quarterly Observer

Religion - 1842 - 1046 pages
...Essays to do Good, which I think was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by its former possessor, that several leaves of it were torn...but the remainder gave me such a turn of thinking, To increase the power of doing good, Mr. Mather devised a plan of voluntary association, very similar...
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The American Biblical Repository

Theology - 1842 - 514 pages
...Essays to do Good, which I think was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by its former possessor, that several leaves of it were torn...but the remainder gave me such a turn of thinking, To increase the power of doing good, Mr. Mather devised a plan of voluntary association, very similar...
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My Progress in Error, and Recovery to Truth: Or, A Tour Through Universalism ...

Unitarianism - 1842 - 258 pages
...time I had towards Him, who is alone the proper object of worship. Franklin somewhere says that he always set a greater value on the character of a " doer of good," than on any other kind of reputation — and I early determined to make him my model ; and to secure that...
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The Pleasures of Religion...

Henry Forster Burder - Christian life - 1843 - 236 pages
...the author, in these words : " When I was a boy, I met with a book entitled, Essays to do Good. It gave me such a turn of thinking, as to have an influence...greater value on the character of a doer of good, than on any other kind of reputation; and if I have been as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public...
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Contributions, Biographical, Literary, and Philosophical, to the ..., Volume 1

John Foster - English essays - 1844 - 590 pages
...boy, I met with a book entitled Essays to do Good, which I think was written by your father, It had been so little regarded by a former possessor, that...greater value on the character of a doer of good, than on any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public...
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Biographical, Literary, and Philosophical Essays: Contributed to the ...

John Foster - Essays - 1844 - 432 pages
...boy, I met with a book entitled Essays to do Good, which I think was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor, that...greater value on the character of a doer of good, than on any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public...
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