 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 ページ
...; a lover of punning and of his friends. Lastly, William Coleman, then a merchant's clerk, about my age, who had the coolest, clearest head, the best heart, and the exactest morals of almost any man I ever met with. He became afterwards a merchant of great note, and one of our provincial... | |
 | Historical Society of Pennsylvania - 1826 - 452 ページ
...afterwards one of the Judges of the Supreme Court, upon whom Franklin bestows this lofty praise, " he had the coolest, clearest head, the best heart, and the exactest morals of almost any man I ever met with ;" and Thomas Godfrey, the author of the quadrant, of which noble invention... | |
 | Historical Society of Pennsylvania - 1827 - 484 ページ
...placed in the counting-house of William Co/eman, a man of whom Dr. Franklin has testified, that he had " the coolest, clearest head, the best heart, and the exactest morals, of almost any man he ever met with." On attaining the age of 21 years he made a voyage to Europe, several... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 ページ
...; a lover of punning and of his friends. Lastly, William Coleman, then a merchant's clerk, about my age, who had the coolest, clearest head, the best heart, and the exactest morals of almost any man I ever met with. He became afterwards a merchant of great note, and one of our provincial... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 668 ページ
...; a lover of punning and of his friends. Lastly, William Coleman, then a merchant's clerk, about my age, who had the coolest, clearest head, the best heart, and the exactest morals, of almost any man I ever met with. He became afterwards a merchant of great note, and one of our provincial... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 ページ
...; a lover of punning and of his friends. Lastly, William Coleman, then a merchant's clerk, about my age, who had the coolest, clearest head, the best heart, and the exactest morals, of almost any man I ever met with. He became afterwards a merchant of great note, and one of our provincial... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1845 - 540 ページ
...it. Real knowledge, like every thing else of the highest value, is not to be obtained so easily. It must be worked for, — studied for, — thought for, — and more than all, it must be prayed for. That is education which lays the foundation of such habits, and as far as a boy's early age will allow,... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1845 - 572 ページ
...knowledge, like every thing else of the highest value, is not to be obtained so easily. It must bo worked for, — studied for, — thought for, — and more than all, it must be prayed for. That is education which lays the foundation of such habits, and as far as a boy's early age will allow,... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1846 - 588 ページ
...it. Real knowledge, like every thing else of the highest value, is not to bo obtained so easily. It must be worked for, — studied for, — thought for, — and more than all, it must be prayed for. That is education which lays the foundation of such habits, and as far as a boy's early age will allow,... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - 1848 - 522 ページ
...The last one named was William Coleman, " then a merchant's clerk," says Franklin, '.' about my own age, who had the coolest, clearest head, the best heart, and the exactest morals, of almost any man I ever met with. He became afterward a merchant of great note, and one of our provincial... | |
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William Coleman, then a merchant's clerk, about my age, who had the coolest, clearest head, the best heart, and the exactest morals of almost any man I ever met with. 
