 | Agriculture - 1860 - 590 pages
...such a turn of thinking аз to havj an influence on my conduct through Hll- ; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good than any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been a useful citizen, the public owes all the advantages of it to the littlü book." Jeremy... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Boston (Mass.) - 1860 - 358 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 any other kind of repxitation ; and if I have been a useful citizen, the public owes all the advantage of it to the little... | |
 | William Makepeace Thayer - 1860 - 342 pages
...the principal future events of my life." And he wrote to a son of Cotton Mather, " 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... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Apprentices - 1861 - 304 pages
...the principal future events of my life." And he wrote to a son of Cotton Mather, " 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... | |
 | John Nicholas Norton - 1861 - 294 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... | |
 | Theology - 1862 - 616 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 a useful citizen, the public owes all the advantages... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1864 - 260 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 any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to that book.... | |
 | James Parton - Biography & Autobiography - 1864 - 668 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 ou any other kind of reputation ; and, if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the... | |
 | Apprentices - 1865 - 138 pages
...the principal future events of my life," And he wrote to a son of Cotton Mather, " 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... | |
 | Witchcraft - 1866 - 368 pages
...fuch a Turn of thinking, as to have an Influence on my Conduct through Life ; for I have always fet a greater Value on the Character of a Doer of Good than on any other Kind of Reputation." In the fame Letter is to be found that often told anecdote of an... | |
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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... 
