 | 1909 - 492 σελίδες
...wise things,—and I don't feel sure he didn't borrow this,—he speaks as if it were old. But then be applied it so neatly!— "He that has once done you...paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian, in one of his flashing moments:— "Give us the luxuries of life,* and we will dispense with its necessaries."... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1896 - 280 σελίδες
...continued to his death. This is another instance of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says, " He that has once done you a kindness will be more...another, than he whom you yourself have obliged." And it shows how much more profitable it is prudently to remove, than to resent, return, and continue... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1896 - 250 σελίδες
...continued to his death. This is another instance of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says, " He that has once done you a kindness will be more...another, than he whom you yourself have obliged." And it shows how much more profitable it is prudently to remove, than to resent, return, and continue... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - 1899 - 558 σελίδες
...EXERCISE.—As in the model, parse the verbs in the following: 1. Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris. 2. He that has once done you a kindness will be more...you another than he whom you yourself have obliged. 3. Then shall the nature that has lain blanched and broken rise into full stature and native hues in... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1900 - 162 σελίδες
...This is another instance," Franklin adds," of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says: ' He that has once done you a kindness will . be more...you another than he whom you yourself have obliged.' " Other positions came to Franklin in due time. The very next year he was made postmaster of Philadelphia,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1901 - 296 σελίδες
...to his death. This is another instance of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says : .“ He that has once done you a kindness will be more...another than he whom you yourself have obliged.”> And it shows how much more profitable it is prudently to remove than to resent, return, and continue... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1902 - 204 σελίδες
...continued to his death. This is another instance of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says: " He that has once done you a kindness "will be more...another, than he •whom you yourself have obliged.'' And it shows how much more profitable it is prudently to remove, than to resent, return, and continue... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1903 - 1252 σελίδες
...be made at all. /6¿<¿. Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. /wa. „-. There is that glorious epicurean paradox uttered by my friend the historian, 1 in one of his flashing moments : " Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries."... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 486 σελίδες
...continued to his death. This is another instance of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says, "He that has once done you a kindness will be more...another, than he whom you yourself have obliged." And it shows how much more profitable it is prudently to remove, than to resent, return, and continue... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 496 σελίδες
...continued to his death. This is another instance of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says, "He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you y our sel} have obliged." And it shows how much more profitable it is prudently to remove, than to... | |
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borrow this,—he speaks as if it were old. But then he applied it so neatly !— " He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he whom you yourself have obliged." Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered... 
