 | Edward Everett - 1850 - 716 Seiten
...Defoe's Essay on Projects, and Cotton Mather's Essay to do good ; " which," says the autobiography, " perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life." This fondness for books at length determined the father for the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | Theodore Alois Buckley - 1853 - 446 Seiten
...advantage. There was also a book of De Foe's, called an 'Essay on Projects," and another of Dr. Mather's, called an ' Essay to do Good,' which perhaps gave...turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life." This caused his lather to place him with his elder brother James,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1855 - 294 Seiten
...paragraph in which he associates ibeEstayt to Jo jooowith a book by De Foe as " [)erhaps giving him a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of his life." He has left another memorandum of this obligation in a letter... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1856 - 654 Seiten
...There was also a book of Defoe's, called Jin Essay on Projects, and another of Dr. Mather's, called Jin Essay to do Good, which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking, that had an influence on some of the principal future events o^ my life. This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make... | |
 | 1858 - 348 Seiten
...acquisition was Bunyan's works, in separate little volumes. I afterward sold them, to enable me to buy R. Barton's Historical Collections. They were small chapmen's...Often," he says, " I sat up in my chamber, reading the grea (he book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned in the morning.* "After gome time, a merchant,... | |
 | John Forster - 1858 - 486 Seiten
...describing the little library in his uncle's house, " a book of De Foe's called " an Essay on Projects, which perhaps gave me a turn of " thinking that had an influence on some of the principal " future events of my life." De Foe composed the Essay here, in Bristol ; though it was not... | |
 | 1859 - 534 Seiten
...also," he says, " a book of De Foe'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, which had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life." In relation to the second... | |
 | William Makepeace Thayer - 1860 - 342 Seiten
...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... | |
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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. 
