 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 370 páginas
...Franklin, " of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says, ' He that has done you a kindness, will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you...resent, return, and continue, inimical proceedings." He was thereafter reflected to the same post, without opposition, for several years successively. In... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - 1848 - 522 páginas
...ready to do you another, than he to whom you have yourself done a favor ;" and " it shows," he adds, " how much more profitable it is, prudently to remove,...resent, return, and continue, inimical proceedings." • The incidents related, and their results, were certainly honorable to the good sense and liberal... | |
 | 1848 - 556 páginas
...Autobiography, ch. vi. An old maxim 1 had learned . . . says, He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged." [JS) (Regarding the saying), "the love of a cat is a part of religion," if the noun of action is not... | |
 | John Stanley (printer.) - 1849 - 178 páginas
...never done before, ever afterwards acting as his friend. " He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged," is the sentiment to which allusion is made. Bradford, Franklin's competitor in the publication of a... | |
 | William Chambers - 1853 - 858 páginas
...learned, which says, <He that has done у ><J a kindness will be more ready to do you another th*n he whom you yourself have obliged.' And it shows how much more profitable it is prudently to reтоте than to resent, return, and continue, inimical proceeding»." He was thereafter re-elected... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 páginas
...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...proceedings. In 1737, Colonel Spotswood, late governor of Yirginia, and then postmaster general, being dissatisfied with the conduct of his deputy at Philadelphia,... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - 1855 - 466 páginas
...truth of an old maxim that 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...resent, return and continue inimical proceedings.' " EUMBEE XXXI. OF THE VAST IMPOBTANCE OF MANNEB IN GIVING- COUNSEL AND BEPEOOF. To exasperate is not... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1857 - 364 páginas
...whom you have yourself obliged : and adds, what all other persons would do well to adopt as a rule, " how much more profitable it is prudently to remove than to resent, return, or continue, unkind and inimical treatment." He now turned much of his attention to internal improvements... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 430 páginas
...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 by my friend, the Historian, in one of his flashing... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 420 páginas
...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 by my friend, the Historian, in one of his flashing... | |
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... with great civility; and he ever after manifested a readiness to serve me on all occasions, so that we became great friends, and our friendship continued to his death. This is another instance of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says,... 
