 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 páginas
...advised me to resign, as more consistent with my honor than being turned out My answer to him was, that I had read or heard of some public man, who made it...to ask for an office, and never to refuse one when offered to him. I approve, said I, of this rule, and shall practise it with a small addition ; I shall... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 668 páginas
...advised me to resign, as more consistent with my honor than being turned out. My answer to him was, that I had read or heard of some public man, who made it...to ask for an office, and never to refuse one when offered to him. "I approve," said I, "of this rule, and shall practise it with a small addition ; I... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 páginas
...turned out. My answer to him was, that I had reac3 or heard of some public man, who made it a rules,, never to ask for an office, and never to refuse one when offered to him. "I approve," said I, "of this rule, and shall practise it with a small addition; I... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Horatio Hastings Weld - 1849 - 602 páginas
...advised me to resign, as more consistent with my honor than being turned out. My answer to him was, that I had read or heard of some public man who made it...to ask for an office, and never to refuse one when offered to him. " I approve," said I, " of this rule, and shall practice it with a small addition:... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Horatio Hastings Weld - 1849 - 592 páginas
...advised me to resign, as more consistent with my honor than being turned out. My answer to him was, that I had read or heard of some public man who made it...to ask for an office, and never to refuse one when offered to him. " I approve," said I, " of this rule, and shall practice it with a small addition :... | |
 | Theodore Alois Buckley - 1853 - 446 páginas
...advised me to resign, as more consistent with my honour than being turned out. My answer to him was, that I had read or heard of some public man who made it...to ask for an office and never to refuse one when offered to him. 'I approve,' said I, 'of this rule, and shall practise it with a small addition: I... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Horatio Hastings Weld - 1856 - 594 páginas
...advised me to resign, as more consistent with my honor than being turned out. My answer to him was, that I had read or heard of some public man who made it...to ask for an office, and never to refuse one when offered to him. " I approve," said I, " of this rule, and shall practice il with a small addition:... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1856 - 670 páginas
...advised me to resign, as more consistent with my honor than being turned out. My answer to him was, that I had read or heard of some public man, who made it...to ask for an office, and never to refuse one when offered to him. "I approve," said I, "of this rule, and shall practise it with a small addition; I... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1859 - 710 páginas
...advised me to resign, as more consistent with my honor than being turned out. My answer to him was, that I had read or heard of some public man, who made it...to ask for an office, and never to refuse one when offered to him. "I approve," said I, "of this rule, and shall practise it with a small addition; I... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1859 - 622 páginas
...advised me to resign, as more consistent with my honor than being turned out. My answer to him was, that I had read or heard of some public man who made it...to ask for an office, and never to refuse one when offered to him. " I approve," said I, " of this rule, and shall practice it with a small addition:... | |
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I had read or heard of some public man who made it a rule never to ask for an office, and never to refuse one when offer'd to him. "I approve," says I, "of his rule, and will practice it with a small addition; I shall never 
