 | William Makepeace Thayer - 1875 - 298 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 o''% the principal future events of my life." And lie wrote to a son of Cotton Mather, " I have always... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - 1876 - 416 pagina’s
...called Essays to do Good, written in quaint style, like everything else from his prolific pen, gave him a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the future events of his life. A letter which he wrote in 1784, when he was seventy-eight years old, to Samuel Mather, shows... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1877 - 982 pagina’s
...was also a book of De Foe's, called an Essay on Projects, and another of Dr. Mather's, called Essays eater cheapness nor the names of his bread, I bade him give me three-penny worth of any s principal future events of my life. This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make... | |
 | 1877 - 972 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... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1878 - 508 pagina’s
...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. 3. This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1879 - 424 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...of thinking, that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life.1 This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 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 in- 130 fluence on some of the principal future events of my life. 7. This bookish inclination at length... | |
 | Richard Fletcher Charles - 1882 - 360 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 a turn for thinking, that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life. with a press... | |
 | 1883 - 82 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... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1884 - 234 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...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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