 | Nian-Sheng Huang - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 304 pages
...such a turn of thinking, as to have an influence on my conduct through life; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good, than on any other kind of reputation; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public... | |
 | James Campbell - Printers - 1999 - 322 pages
...May 1784 that Essays to do Good had "an influence on my conduct through life; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good, than on any other kind of reputation . . ." (W9:208).90 For Franklin, the combined message of these two... | |
 | Kathleen D. McCarthy - Business & Economics - 2003 - 350 pages
...public service into "a kind of religion." As he later admitted, Essay upon the Good inspired him to "set a greater value on the character of a doer of good, than on any other kind of reputation."4 Like Mather, Defoe offered a menu of potential activities, from... | |
 | Mark Skousen, Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 514 pages
...a turn of thinking as to have no [small] influence on my conduct thro' life; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good, than on any other kind of reputation; and if I have been a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 320 pages
...me such a turn of thinking as to have an influence on my conduct through life, for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good than on any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public... | |
 | Ralph Frasca - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 307 pages
...head, has frequently been of use to me.1" influence on my conduct through life; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good, than on any other kind of reputation; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public... | |
 | Edwin Wolf, Kevin J. Hayes - Reference - 2006 - 1012 pages
...a Turn of Thinking as to have no [little] Influence on my Conduct thro' Life; for I have always set a greater Value on the Character of a Doer of Good, than on any other kind of Reputation; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful Citizen, the Publick... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 513 pages
...a turn of thinking as to have no [small] influence on my conduct thro' life; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good, than on any other kind of reputation; and if I have been a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage... | |
 | Anouar Majid - 305 pages
...son and grandson of the distinguished ministers at the Second Church in Boston, "I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good, than on any other kind of reputation." Less than six years later, in response to a query from Ezra Stiles,... | |
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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 as to have an influence on my conduct through life; for... 
