 | 1796 - 34 trang
...intitled, " Poor Richard improved," WRITTEN BY DR. BKNJ. FRANKLIN. Courteous Reader, I have heard, that nothing gives an author so ^great pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1804 - 78 trang
...intitled " Poor Richard's Almanack, fo^ the year 1759." I have heard, that nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. This pleasure I have seldom enjoyed ; fortho' I have been, if I may say it without vanity, an eminent... | |
 | Gleaner - 1805 - 426 trang
...his works respectfully quoted by others. Judge, then, how I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you. I stopped my horse, lately where a great number of people were collect, ed at an auction of merchants' goods. The hour of sale hot being... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 586 trang
...Preface of an old Pensylvania Almanack, intitled, Poor Richard Improved*. COURTEOUS READER, I HAVE heard, that nothing gives an author so great pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you.... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 trang
...OF AN OLD PENNSYLTANIAN ALMAN ACK, ENTITLED, POOR RICHARD IMPROVED. COURTEOUS HEADER, I HAVE beard, that nothing gives an author so great pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you.... | |
 | James Plumptre - 1812 - 424 trang
...house.. I have heard (says the supposed author of the Almanack, Richard Sounders, or POOR RICHARD,) that nothing gives an author so great pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you.... | |
 | 1812 - 314 trang
...sometimes quoted myself with great gravity. Judge then how much I have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you. I stopped my horse lately where a great number of people were collected at an auction of merchant's goods. The hour of sale »ot being... | |
 | 1812 - 314 trang
...intitled " Poor Richard's Almanack, for the year 1758." I have heard, that nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. This pleasure I have seldom enjoyed ; fortho' I have been, if I may say it without vanity, an eminent... | |
 | George Miller - 1813 - 638 trang
...Companion. No. III.] MARCH, 1813. THE AUCTION ROOM; OB, THfc STORY OF FATHER ABRAHAM. •I HAVE heard, that nothing gives an author so great pleasure as...works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. This pleasure I have seldom enjoyed j for though I have been, if I may say it without vanity, an eminent... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 360 trang
...works respectfully qnoted by others. Jndge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you. I stopped my horse lately, where a great number of people were collected, at an anction of merchants' goods. The hour of the sale not... | |
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Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you. I stopped my horse lately where a great number of people were collected at an auction of merchants 
