 | William M. Thayer - 1861 - 304 pagina’s
...which had a beneficial influence upon his after life. He said, forty or fifty years afterward, " It gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life." And he wrote to a son of Cotton Mather, " I have always set a... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1862 - 688 pagina’s
...Mather's "Essay to do Good," and De Foe's " Essay on Projects," he mentions particularly аз giving Mm " a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of his life." Two or three years after the 'commencement of the apprenticeship,... | |
 | Cecilia Lucy Brightwell - 1863 - 332 pagina’s
...Essay on Projects," with another by Dr. Mather, entitled " The Art of Doing Good." " These," he says, " perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on the principal future events of my life." To his new occupation of a printer he very readily turned... | |
 | 1865 - 138 pagina’s
...which had a beneficial influence upon his after life. He said, forty or fifty years afterwards, " It gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life," And he wrote to a son of Cotton Mather, " I have always set a... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Epes Sargent - 1866 - 270 pagina’s
...advantage. There was also a • book of Defoe's, called An Essay on Projects, and another of Dr. Mather's, called An Essay to do Good, which perhaps gave me...turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life. This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 426 pagina’s
...was also a book of De Foe's, called an Essay on Projects, and another of Dr. Mather's, called Essays to do Good, which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life. -* This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 434 pagina’s
...was also a book of De Foe's, called an Essay on Projects, and another of Dr. Mather's, called Essays to do Good, which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life. This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 pagina’s
...Mather's " Essay to do Good," and De Foe's " Essay on Projects," he mentions particularly as giving him " a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of his life." Two or three years after the commencement of the apprenticeship,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow - 1875 - 579 pagina’s
...was also a book of De Foe's, called an Essay on Projects, and another of Dr. Mather's, called Essays to do Good, which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life. This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 812 pagina’s
...was also a book of De Foe's, called an Essay on Projects, and another of Dr. Mather's, called Essays to do Good, which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life. This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make... | |
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Good, which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life. 
