 | 1796 - 34 sider
...Pensylvanian Almanack, intitled, " Poor Richard improved," WRITTEN BY DR. BKNJ. FRANKLIN. Courteous Reader, I have heard, that nothing gives an author so ^great...pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1804 - 78 sider
...intitled " Poor Richard's Almanack, fo^ the year 1759." I have heard, that nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted...learned authors. This pleasure I have seldom enjoyed ; fortho' I have been, if I may say it without vanity, an eminent author (of almanacks) annually now... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 586 sider
...in the Preface of an old Pensylvania Almanack, intitled, Poor Richard Improved*. COURTEOUS READER, I HAVE heard, that nothing gives an author so great...pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you.... | |
 | 1812 - 314 sider
...seldom enjoyed ; fortho' I have been, if I may say it without vanity, an eminent author (of almanacks) annually now a full quarter of a century, my brother authors in the same way (for what reason 1 know not) have ever been very sparing in their applauses ; and no other author has taken the least... | |
 | 1812 - 314 sider
...intitled " Poor Richard's Almanack, for the year 1758." I have heard, that nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted...learned authors. This pleasure I have seldom enjoyed ; fortho' I have been, if I may say it without vanity, an eminent author (of almanacks) annually now... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 sider
...OF AN OLD PENNSYLTANIAN ALMAN ACK, ENTITLED, POOR RICHARD IMPROVED. COURTEOUS HEADER, I HAVE beard, that nothing gives an author so great pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you.... | |
 | James Plumptre - 1812 - 424 sider
...house.. I have heard (says the supposed author of the Almanack, Richard Sounders, or POOR RICHARD,) that nothing gives an author so great pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you.... | |
 | George Miller - 1813 - 638 sider
...Man's Fireside Companion. No. III.] MARCH, 1813. THE AUCTION ROOM; OB, THfc STORY OF FATHER ABRAHAM. •I HAVE heard, that nothing gives an author so great...learned authors. This pleasure I have seldom enjoyed j for though I have been, if I may say it without vanity, an eminent author (of Almanacks) annually... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1821 - 232 sider
...shown in the Preface of an old Pennsylvania Almanac, entitled, Poor Bichard Improved* COURTEOUS READER, I HAVE heard, that nothing gives an author so great...pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1821 - 232 sider
...Preface of an old Pennsylvania Almanact entitled, Poor Richard Improved* / COURTEOUS HEADER, I HAYE heard, that nothing gives an author so great pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you.... | |
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I have been, if I may say it without vanity an eminent author of almanacks annually now a full quarter of a century, my brother authors in the same way, for what reason I know not, have ever been very sparing in their applauses, and no other author has... 
