 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
 | 1853 - 446 pages
...Christian on his road, In safety to the throne of God. From " SUNDAY MEMORIALS." LETTER FROM POOR RICHARD. 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 - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...CLEARLY SHOWN IN THE PREFACE OP AN OLD PENNSYLVANIA ALMANAC, ENTITLED, " POOR EICHAKD IMPROVED." * 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 - 1853 - 308 pages
...ENTITULFD " POOH RICHARD'S ALMANAC yort 1758." WRITTEN BY DR. FRANKLIN. I HAVE heard that nothing gues an author so great pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. This pleasure [ have seldom enjoyed ; for though I have been, if I may say it without vanity, an eminent author (of... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...CLEARLY SHOWN IN THEPREFACE OF AN OLD PENNSYLVANIA ALMANAC, INTITLED, PUOR RICHARD IMPROVBD. CODRTEOUS READER, I HAVE heard, that nothing gives an author so great pleasure, äs to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratifled... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...PRELIMINARY ADDRESS TO THE PENNSYLVANIA ALMANAC, JNTTTLED, ' 'POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC, FOR THE YBAR 1758." 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 - Inventors - 1855 - 522 pages
...THE PREFACE OS AN OLD PENNSYLVANIA ALMANAC, ENTITLED, " POOR RICHARD IMPROVED." * COURTEOUS HEADER : 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 Gostwick - American literature - 1856 - 338 pages
...he will find in Franklin's maxims the beginning though not the end of wisdom. THE 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.... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
...some of the propositions of that famous arithmetician. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. THE WAY TO WEALTH. COCBTEOCS READER, I have heard, that nothing gives an author...pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Judge, tuen, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you.... | |
 | William Chambers - Conduct of life - 1858 - 378 pages
...purpose to be omitted. We therefore conclude with this string of proverbial and amusing counsels. ' 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... | |
 | Ferdinand E. A. Gasc - French language - 1858 - 362 pages
...the ravines. — (WH RUSSELL, The War.) POOR RICHARD.4 (Written by Benjamin Franklin) I HAVE heard,5 that nothing gives an author so great pleasure as...works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. Judge then how much I have been gratified by an incident which I am going to relate to you. I stopped... | |
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