 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 oldal
...lightly passed over by many readers, yet if they make a deep impression on one active mind in a hundred, the effects may be considerable. Permit me to mention...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 several... | |
 | Cotton Mather - 1855 - 680 oldal
...year 1784, in writing to Samuel Mather, son of Cotton, he thus alludes to it in his happy style: — "When I was a boy, I met with a book entitled ' Essays to do Good,' which I think was written by your lather. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor, that several... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1855 - 294 oldal
...another memorandum of this obligation in a letter to Samuel , Mather, from Passcy, May 12, 178t:— "When : I was a boy, I met with a book, entitled ' Essays to do Good,' which I think was written by yonr father. It had been so little regarded by its former possessor, that several... | |
 | Cotton Mather - 1855 - 676 oldal
...year 1784, in writing to Samuel Mather, son of Cotton, he thus alludes to it in his happy style: — "When I was a 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 several... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855 - 718 oldal
...another memorandum of this obligation in a letter to Samuel Mather, from Passey, May 12, 1784 :— " When I was a 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 its former possessor, that several... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Day - 1858 - 478 oldal
...another, although less remarkable, example. He says, in an epistle to his friend, Samuel Mather, " When I was a boy, I met with a book entitled Essays to do Good, which I think •was written by your father, Cotton Mather. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor,... | |
 | 1859 - 534 oldal
...these books he makes a statement even stronger. In writing to the son of Cotton Mather, he says : " Permit me to mention one little instance, which, though...with a book, entitled, ' Essays to do Good,' which, I think, was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by its former possessor that several... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1859 - 274 oldal
...Examinations by many readers, yet if they make a deep impression on one active mind in a hundred, the efi'ects may be considerable. Permit me to mention one little...you. When I was a boy, I met with a book entitled : " Essay to do Good," which I think was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by... | |
 | John Nicholas Norton - 1861 - 294 oldal
...lightly passed over by many readers, yet, if they make a deep impression on one active mind in a hundred, the effects may be considerable. Permit me to mention...uninteresting to you. When I was a boy, I met with u book, entitled "Essays to do Good," which, I think, was written by your father. It had been so little... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1864 - 260 oldal
...make a deep impression on one active mind in a hundred, the effects may be considerable. Permit me lo mention one little instance, which, though it relates to myself, will not Le quite uninteresting to you. When 1 was a boy, I met with a book entitled ' Essays to do good,' vnich... | |
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When I was a 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 several leaves of it were torn out ; but the remainder gave me such a turn of thinking... 
