 | Richard Garnett - 1890 - 448 pages
...Lives " there was, in 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 " Essays to do Good," which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some... | |
 | Albert H. Smyth - 1889 - 324 pages
...There 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...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 - 1891 - 142 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 that had an influence on some of the principle future events of my life. This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 pages
...There 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...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, Julian Willis Abernethy - 1892 - 200 pages
...There 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...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... | |
 | Jenny H. Stickney - 1892 - 416 pages
...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...on some of the principal future events of my life. father to make me a printer, though he had already one son (James) of that profession. In 1717 my brother... | |
 | Charles Francis Adams - 1893 - 128 pages
...especially to 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...on some of the principal future events of my life." which therefore is in almost exclusive use in all theological periods and lands, Edwards never flinched... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1895 - 310 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. 5Ji.th?r's, calIed_^(.H Essay to do Good, which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking, that had an influence... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1896 - 130 pages
...There 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...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... | |
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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. 
