 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 pages
...also a book of Be 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...on some of the principal future events of my life. This bookish inclination at length determined my father -to make me a printer though he had already... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 pages
...them Plutarch's lives which I read abundantly, and I still think that time spent to great 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 influence on some... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 pages
...also a book of De Foe1 1, called an Essay on Projects, atod another of Dr. Mather's, called an Estay ^F < j J ]ᜆ 2 bl !+s ı\ n 5 {\_ Q 1k =_ This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make me a printer, though he had already... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...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,...on some of the principal future events of my life. This bookish inclination at length determined my father to- make me a printer, though he had already... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 668 pages
...them Plutarch's Lives, which I read abundantly, and I still think that time spent to great 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 influence on some... | |
 | 1845 - 608 pages
...library in 1845.] DANIEL DE FOE. 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...on some of the principal future events of my life.' He composed the Essay here; though it was not published until two years later. What the tendency of... | |
 | 1846 - 386 pages
...works it abounds with original and sagacious remarks. Franklin acknowledges that this essay " gave him a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of his^ life," and many other writers and speculators have derived serviceable hints from it. Meanwhile... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1848 - 676 pages
...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,...on some of the principal future events of my life. This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make me a printer, though he had already... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1849 - 78 pages
...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 me a turn of thinking...on some of the principal future events of my life. This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make me a printer, though he had already... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1850 - 716 pages
...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 trade of a printer, although he had... | |
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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. 
