...\tf .1. PUBLIC L.otlA ASTOS, Lt'V'.T AND TILDBN FfH1NUAT10N8 K I' My inclination for books at last determined my father to make me a printer, though he had already a son in that profession. My brother had returned from England in 1717, with a press and types, in...

...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 of 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...

...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 of thinking that had...my brother James returned from England with a press aud letters, to set up his business in Boston. I liked it much better than that of my father, but still...

...' Autobiography ' says of Cotton Mather's ' Essaye to do Good,' that "they perhaps gave him a tone of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of his life ;" and in reading Franklin's writings and plans of self-discipline we have often fancied that...

...'Autobiography' says of Cotton Mather's 'Essays to do Good,' that " they perhaps gave him a tone of thiuking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of his lit'.- ;" and in reading Franklin's writings and plans of self-discipline we have often fancied...

...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...James returned from England with a press and letters to set up his business in Boston. I liked it much better than that of my father, but still had a hankering...

...Mather's " Essay to do Good," and De Foe's " Essay on Projects," he mentions particularly as giving him " a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of his life." Two or three years after the commencement of the apprenticeship, his brother set up the...

...that have since influenced some of the principal events of my life. " My inclination for books at last determined my father to make me a printer, though he had already a son in that profession. My brother had returned from England in 1717, with a press and types, in...

...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...James returned from England with a press and letters to set up his business in Boston. I liked it much better than that of my father, but still had a hankering...

...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...