 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...Scotland) gave a contrary opinion. " For the industry of that Franklin," said he, " is superior to anything I ever saw of the kind; I see him still at work when I go home from club, and he is at work again before his neighbors are out of bed." This struck the rest, and we soon... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...place, Keimer and Bradford; but Dr. Baird (whom you and I saw many years after at his native place, St. Andrew's, in Scotland,) gave a contrary opinion...kind ; I see him still at work when I go home from club, and he is at work again before his neighbors are out of bed." This struck the rest, and we soon... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Printers - 1856 - 654 pages
...place, Keimer and Bradford ; but Dr. Baird (whom you and I saw many years after at his native place, St. Andrew's in Scotland) gave a contrary opinion...kind ; I see him still at work when I go home from club, and he is at work again before his neighbours are out of bed." This struck the rest, and we soon... | |
 | Charles C. B. Seymour - Biography - 1858 - 606 pages
...the young firm. Dr. Baird, speaking of Franklin at this time, said, " The industry of that Franklin is superior to any thing I ever saw of the kind ;...from the club, and he is at work again before his neighbors are out of bed." This observable industry soon brought its reward; work flowed in steadily,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1859 - 680 pages
...his native place, St. Andrew's in Scotland,) gave a contrary opinion : '¡ For the industry ofthat Franklin," said he, " is superior to any thing I ever saw of the kind ; I see him still at work when I so home from club, and he is at work again before his neighbours are out of bed." This struck the rest,... | |
 | Robert Kemp PHILP - 1859 - 182 pages
...words of Dr. Baird :— "The industry of this Franklin," says the Doctor, " is siperior to anything I ever saw of the kind ; I see him still at work when I go home from club, and he is at work again before his neighbours are out of bed." His Economy of Time, indeed, appears... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Apprentices - 1861 - 304 pages
...present, said : " It will prove a success. For the industry of that Franklin is superior to anything I ever saw of the kind. I see him still at work when I go home from club, and he is at work again before his neighbors are out of bed." This remark was appreciated by... | |
 | William Makepeace Thayer - 1860 - 342 pages
...present, said : " It will prove a success, for the industry of that Franklin is superior to anything I ever saw of the kind. I see him still at work when I go home from club, and he is at work again before his neighbours are out of bed." This remark was appreciated by... | |
 | James Parton - Biography & Autobiography - 1864 - 668 pages
...present who lived near the office expressed a contrary opinion, saying, " The industry of that Franklin is superior to any thing I ever saw of the kind. I...from the club, and he is at work again before his neighbors are out of bed." This remark made such an impression upon one of the merchants who heard... | |
 | Apprentices - 1865 - 138 pages
...present, said, " It will prove a success, for the industry of that Franklin is superior to anything I ever saw of the kind. I see him still at work when I go home from club, and he is at work again before his neighbours are out of bed." This remark was appreciated by... | |
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I ever saw of the kind ; I see him still at work when I go home from club, and he is at work again before his neighbors are out of bed. 
