 | Edward Arber - 1877 - 668 pages
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 | Godfrey Golding - 1877 - 268 pages
...Precept for Practice, and we earnestly commend its perusal to our readers. " 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.... | |
 | Charles Joseph Sherwill Dawe - 1877 - 392 pages
...periodicals he set on foot Poor Richard's Almanac, famous for its maxims and proverbs.J 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.... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1878 - 508 pages
...years " ? What is meant by " memorial blooms " ? CXXI1.— THE WAY TO WEALTH. 1. 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.... | |
 | Gasc - 1879 - 288 pages
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 | 1882 - 630 pages
...the watchwords of thrift and induKtry. Franklin was born in 1706; died in 1790.] CouBTEOL's RKADEK: 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 ¡xn incident I am going to relate to you.... | |
 | Osgood Eaton Fuller - 1884 - 564 pages
...unique a piece of writing as any language affords. Here it is: POOR RICHARD'S ADDRESS. 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.... | |
 | Fortunate men - 1884 - 192 pages
...in the Preface of an old Pennsylvania Almanack, entitled, 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.... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pages
...in the preface of as old I'eu«aylvaiua Almanack, intided. Poor Richard improved. Courteous Reader, register of his others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you.... | |
 | Frank McAlpine - 1886 - 456 pages
...career, civil and military, of which the history of the world furnishes no other example. Poor Richard. 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.... | |
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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... 
