 | Ceiniogwerth - 1849 - 352 trang
...Yr wyf yn edrych ar cich amcan yn hyn yn gyfFelyb i'r hyn a ddywed y Dr. Franklin, — '• / hâte always set a greater value on the character of a DOER OF GOOD, than any other kind of reputation." Felly gellwch chwithau brisio egwyddorion o'r fath yn uwch na " Cheinioywerth." Nid ydyw belbch yn... | |
 | 1852 - 454 trang
...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...greater value on the character of a doer of good than on any other kind of reputation." In the same letter is to be found that often told anecdote of an... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1853 - 364 trang
...this book, which was written, I think, by the father of Dr. Mather, of Boston. It gave me such a turn of thinking, as to have an influence on my conduct...any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to that book." Franklin, again, has been the... | |
 | F. S., Frederick Saunders - 1853 - 306 trang
...father of Dr. Mather, of Boston. It gave me such a turn of thinking, as to have an influence on iny conduct through life; for I have always set a greater...any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to that book." Franklin, again, has been the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 trang
...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...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 trang
...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...seem to think, a useful citizen, the public owes the advantageof it to that book. You mention your being in your seventy-eighth year. I am in my seventy-ninth.... | |
 | Cotton Mather - 1855 - 680 trang
...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...greater value on the character of a doer of good than on any other kind of reputation." In the same letter is to be found that often-told anecdote of an... | |
 | Cotton Mather - 1855 - 676 trang
...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...greater value on the character of a doer of good than on any other kind of reputation." In the same letter is to be found that often-told anecdote of an... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1855 - 468 trang
...personal ambition, which urges on men of a less noble cast of character. " I have always," he exclaims, " set a greater value on the character of a doer of good than on any other kind of reputation." To do good, one must have the ability to project ; the skill, patience,... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 trang
...as a philosopher, statesman, and a patriot, he nobly says, in reference to the " Essays to do Good," 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... | |
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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... 
