 COURTEOUS READER : I have heard that nothing gives an author so great pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. This pleasure I have seldom enjoyed ; for, though I have been, if I may say it without vanity, an eminent...  The Stoddard Library: Eliot-Gladstone - Page 273by John Lawson Stoddard - 1913Full view - About this book
 | Working class - 1832 - 220 pages
...and the friend of society, the only real and right REASON. * Tom Paine. POOR RICHARD'S WAY TO WEALTH. COURTEOUS READER, I have heard that nothing gives...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.... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1833 - 336 pages
...here, as they were drawn up by the author himself in the form of a preface to one of his Almanacs. J E 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 Í am going to relate to yon.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1834 - 310 pages
...AKIA tlf MAHAC, ENTITUI.ED, " POOR KICHABD1* AUBAN AC, FOR THK TEAK 1758." WRITTEN BY DR. FRANKLIN. ( I HAVE heard, that nothing gives an author so great...respectfully quoted by other learned authors. This pleasure l have seldom enloyed : for though I have been, if I may say it without vanity, an eminent author (of... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1834 - 206 pages
...good sense and saving knowledge because it comes from the other side of the water ?" WAY TO WEALTH. COURTEOUS READER — I HAVE heard that nothing gives...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, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1836 - 584 pages
...in the same language is prefixed. Some copies of THE WAY TO WEALTH begin in the following manner. " I have heard, that nothing gives an author so great...authors. This pleasure I have seldom enjoyed ; for, though I have been, if I may say it without vanity, an eminent author (of Almanacs) annually now a... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1836 - 584 pages
...is retained in the beautiful Dijon edition. It has passed thence into the modern Greek. — EDITOR. COURTEOUS READER, I HAVE heard, that nothing gives...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.... | |
 | English literature - 1838 - 274 pages
...OPPONENT, YOU MAY DEVIATE FROM THE RULES LAID DOWN BY THEORETICAL CRITICS. — " Nothing," says Franklin, "gives an author so great pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted."61 Quote, nevertheless, your opponent : it is not probable that he will consider his case as... | |
 | Bolton Corney - Literature - 1838 - 280 pages
...OPPONENT, YOU MAY DEVIATE FROM THE RULES LAID DOWN BY THEORETICAL CRITICS. — "Nothing," says Franklin, "gives an author so great pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted."61 Quote, nevertheless, your opponent :' it is not probable that he will consider his case... | |
 | Bolton CORNEY - 1838 - 280 pages
...OPPONENT, YOU MAY DEVIATE FROM THE RULES LAID DOWN BY THEORETICAL CRITICS. — "Nothing," says Franklin, "gives an author so great pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted."61 Quote, nevertheless, your opponent : it is not probable that he will consider his case as... | |
 | Bolton Corney - English literature - 1838 - 276 pages
...OPPONENT, you MAY DEVIATE FROM THE RULES LAID DOWN BY THEORETICAL CRITICS. — " Nothing," says Franklin, "gives an author so great pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted."61 Quote, nevertheless, your opponent : it is not probable that he will consider his case as... | |
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