If to us personally Emerson does not make this supreme appeal, there are other writers, all at hand, set apart from the great multitude of lesser spirits by that final weigher of human talents whom Bacon calls Good Fame.
"The Booklover and His Books"
Harry Lyman Koopman
I took three bales of cotton to the weigher, who read my contract, and set aside one bale for me.
"A Woman's Life-Work Labors and Experiences"
Laura S. Haviland
He directed me to Captain L. E. Salles, the chief weigher, to whom I had reported a number of days, but failed to get work, and as I failed this time I asked if I had better continue calling for work.
"A Woman's Life-Work Labors and Experiences"
Laura S. Haviland