 | James Ball (conveyancing clerk.) - 1878 - 208 str.
...sure he didn't borrow this — he speaks as if it were old. But then he applied it so neatly : " ' He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready...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... | |
 | John Stevens C. Abbott - 1879 - 418 str.
...death. This is another instance of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says ' He that hath once done you a kindness will be more ready to do...resent, return, and continue inimical proceedings." There was something in this transaction, an apparent want of sincerity, an approach to trickery, which... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 640 str.
...sure he didn't borrow this — he speaks as if it were old. But then he applied it so neatly ! " He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready...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 - 1883 - 354 str.
...sure he did n't borrow this, — he speaks as if it were old. But then he applied it so neatly ! — " lie that has once done you a kindness will be more...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1886 - 256 str.
...to his death. This is another instance of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says, " He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready...proceedings. In 1737, Colonel Spotswood, late governor of Vir- ^ ' ginia, and then postmaster-general, being dissatisfied with the conduct of his deputy at Philadelphia,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1891 - 142 str.
...to his death. This is another instance of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says, "He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready...yourself have obliged." And it shows how much more 74 profitable it is prudently to remove, than to resent, return, and continue inimical proceedings.... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 350 str.
...he did n't borrow this, — he speaks as if it were old. But then he applied it so neatly ! — " He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready...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 - 1891 - 362 str.
...he didn't borrow this, — he speaks as if it were old. But then he applied it so neatly ! — " He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready...you another than he whom you yourself have obliged." " Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries." To these must certainly... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Julian Willis Abernethy - 1892 - 200 str.
...to his death. This is another instance of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says : " He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready...and continue inimical proceedings. In 1737, Colonel Spots wood, late governor of Virginia, and then postmaster-general, being dissatisfied with the conduct... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 str.
...regret for the evil we have done, as a fear of that which may result to us. Benjamin Franklin notes, "He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready...you another than he whom you yourself have obliged." Grave to Gay. A famous couplet in Pope's " Essay on Man," Epistle iv., 1. 379, runs as follows: Formed... | |
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... which he had never done before, and 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... 
