 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.), Adaline Wheelock Sterling - 1901 - 526 sivua
...was also a 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 an influence on some of the principal future events of my life. This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1901 - 296 sivua
...advantage. There was also a 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 an influenc0 on some of the principal future events of my life. This bookish inclination at length determined... | |
 | Bostonian Society - 1901 - 558 sivua
...Samuel Mather, a pastor in Boston, that Dr. Cotton Mather's " Essay to do Good," published in 1710, "perhaps gave me a turn of thinking, that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life." This is a noble confession of Franklin. The fact is, everybody... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1902 - 564 sivua
...also a 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 an influence on some of the principal events of my life. 3. This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make me... | |
 | Julian Willis Abernethy - 1902 - 536 sivua
...found Plutarch's Li e " Lives," which he " read abundantly," he says, and Cotton Mather's " Essays to do Good," which " perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life." There was then not a public library in the colonies. Of five hundred... | |
 | Julian Willis Abernethy - 1902 - 520 sivua
...he found Plutarch's Llfe " Lives," which he " read abundantly," he says, and Cotton Mather's "Essays to do Good," which "perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence 011 some of the principal future events of my life." There was then not a public library in the colonies.... | |
 | D.C. Heath and Company - 1903 - 362 sivua
...also a 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 an influence on some of the principal future events of my life. This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make... | |
 | 1903 - 362 sivua
...also a 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 an influence on some of the principal future events of my life. This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1903 - 600 sivua
...many of the benevolent associations of the present day. Of this book Benjamin Franklin says that it " perhaps gave me a turn of thinking, that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life." 1 Cotton Mather sought to check the vice of drunkenness, and was... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1904 - 520 sivua
...was also a 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 an influence on some of the principal future events of my life. This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make... | |
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Good, which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life. 
