 We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it: and to show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take great care of their education, instruct them...  Life of Benjamin Franklin - Página 174por Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 224 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1894 - 480 páginas
...badly. They were not fit for hunters, warriors, or councilors ; they were totally good for nothing. " If the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen...instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." In the great race of life common sense has the right of way. Wealth, a diploma, a pedigree, talent,... | |
 | Nelson Appleton Miles - 1896 - 616 páginas
...warriors, or counsellors ; they were totally good foi nothing. We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it :...make men of them.' "Having frequent occasions to hold public counsels, they have acquired great order and decency in conducting them. The old men sit in... | |
 | Marshman William Hazen - 1896 - 536 páginas
...warriors, or counselors; they were totally good for nothing. We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it; and...make men of them." Having frequent occasions to hold public councils, they have acquired great order and decency in conducting them. The old men sit in... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1896 - 490 páginas
...badly. They were not fit for hunters, warriors, or councilors ; they were totally good for nothing. "If the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen...instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." In the great race of life common sense has the right of way. Wealth, a diploma, a pedigree, talent,... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1896 - 488 páginas
...badly. They were not fit for hunters, warriors, or councilors ; they were totally good for nothing. "If the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen...instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." In the great race of life common sense has the right of way. Wealth, a diploma, a pedigree, talent,... | |
 | Edwin Herbert Lewis, Lewis, Edwin Hebert - 1899 - 442 páginas
...counsellors; they were therefore totally good for nothing. We are however not the less 60 obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it; and,...instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." 65 Having frequent occasions to hold councils, they have acquired great order and decency in conducting... | |
 | 1899 - 1012 páginas
...warriors, nor counsellors; they were totally good for nothing. We are however not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it; and,...instruct them in all we know, and make men of them. son William and his nephew James were properly taught, but he sent neither to a university. When William... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1899 - 554 páginas
...warriors, nor counsellors ; they were totally good for nothing. We are however not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it ;...instruct them in all we know, and make men of them.' " In a more concrete form, too. Franklin testified to the slight value he placed upon college training.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1900 - 190 páginas
...counsellors — they were therefore totally good for nothing. We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it ; and to show our grateful sense 66 of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons we will take great care of... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1901 - 296 páginas
...counselors — they were therefore totally good for nothing. We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it ;...make men of them." Having frequent occasions to hold councils, they have acquired great order and decency in conducting them. The old men sit in the foremost... | |
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