...greater value on the character of a doer of good, than any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to that book." Franklin, again, has been the favorite of many young persons, who have had to thank his sagacious pages...

...have always net a greater value on the character of a doer of good than any other kind of rr tation j and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful...You mention your being in your seventy-eighth year. 1 am in my seventy-ninth. We are grown old together. It is now more than sixty years smce I left Boston...

...eonduet through life ; for I have always set a greater value on the eharaeter of a doer of good than any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful eitizen, the publie owes the advantage of it to that book. You mention your being in your seventy-eighth...

...thinking, as to have an influence on my conduct through life ; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good, than on any other...your seventy-eighth year; I am in my seventy-ninth ; we are grown old together. It is now more than sixty years since I left Boston, but I remember well...

...thinking, as to have an influence on my conduct through life ; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good, than on any other...your being in your seventy-eighth year ; I am in my seventy -ninth ; we are grown old together. It is now more than sixty years since I left Boston, but...

...conduct through life ; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good, than any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been, as you seem to think, an useful citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to that book. You mention your being in your...

...is alone the proper object of worship. Franklin somewhere says that he always set a greater value on the character of a " doer of good," than on any other kind of reputation — and I early determined to make him my model ; and to secure that kind of reputation which he so much valued....

...thinking, as to have an influence on my conduct through life. For I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good, than on any other...the public owes the advantage of it to that book." Now if such was the effect, immediately or more remotely, attributable to the words of a British envoy,...

...thinking as to have an influence on my conduct through life : for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good, than on any other...citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to that hook. You mention your being in your seventy-eight year : I am in my seventh-ninth year ; we are grown...

...set a greater value on the character of a doer of good, than any other kind of reputation, and if 1 have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen,...the public owes the advantage of it to that book." 9* There is scarcely a department of Christian benevolence, which has been thought of in later times,...