| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 Seiten
...contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas. This sum may be soon spent, the regret only remaining of having foolishly...pleasure of its being done with a good instrument. With these sentiments I have hazarded the few preceding pages, hoping they may afford hints which some... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 668 Seiten
...contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas. This sum may be soon spent, the regret only remaining of having foolishly...pleasure of its being done with a good instrument. With these sentiments I have hazarded the few preceding pages, hoping they may afford hints, which... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 Seiten
...contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas. This sum may be soon spent, the regret only remaining of having foolishly...pleasure of its being done with a good instrument. With these sentiments I have hazarded the few preceding pages, hoping they may afford hints, which... | |
| Horatio Hastings Weld, John Frost - 1846 - 252 Seiten
...contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas! This sum may be soon spent, the regret only remaining of having foolishly...pleasure of its being done with a good instrument." When we read Franklin's writings, we find the lessons of his wisdom drawn, not from the great events... | |
| Robert Southey - 1847 - 722 Seiten
...contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas. This sum may be soon spent, the regret only remaining of having foolishly...other case he escapes the frequent vexation of waiting 543 for barbers, and of their sometimes dirty fingers, offensive breaths and dull razors; he shaves... | |
| Orville Luther Holley - 1848 - 534 Seiten
...his life than by giving him a thousand guineas. This sum may be soon spent, leaving only the regret of having foolishly consumed it; but in the other...he shaves when most convenient to him, and enjoys the daily pleasure of its being done with a good instrument." Prior to 1753, Franklin had been employed... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, Horatio Hastings Weld - 1849 - 602 Seiten
...contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas. This sum may be soon spent, the regret only remaining of having foolishly...pleasure of its being done with a good instrument. With these sentiments I have hazarded the few preceding pages, hoping they may afford hints which some... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, Horatio Hastings Weld - 1849 - 592 Seiten
...guineas. This sum may be soon spent, the regret only remaining of having foolishly consumed it; butin the other case, he escapes the frequent vexation of...pleasure of its being done with a good instrument. With these sentiments I have hazarded the few preceding pages, hoping they may afford hints which some... | |
| John Stanley (printer.) - 1849 - 178 Seiten
...contribute more to the happiness of his life, than in giving him one thousand guineas. This same may be soon spent, the regret only remaining of having foolishly...offensive breaths, and dull razors ; he shaves when most conveuientto him, and enjoys daily the pleasure of its being done with a good instrument. With these... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1856 - 670 Seiten
...contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas. This sum may be soon spent, the regret only remaining of having foolishly...pleasure of its being done with a good instrument. With these sentiments I have hazarded the few preceding pages, hoping they may afford hints, which... | |
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