Benjamin Franklin : His Autobiography: With a Narrative of His Public Life and ServicesDerby & Jackson, 1859 - 549 páginas |
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Página vii
... party spleen . To the latest hour his countrymen strove with each other in doing him honor , and his last years were passed in the harvesting of his laurels . But his fame as a politician has lost in this wise : that writers , finding ...
... party spleen . To the latest hour his countrymen strove with each other in doing him honor , and his last years were passed in the harvesting of his laurels . But his fame as a politician has lost in this wise : that writers , finding ...
Página ix
... , a guard thus set against the claim , by a family , of what was meant for a nation , as neither in his life " gave to a party what was meant for mankind . " CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. AUTOBIOGRAPHY , commenced at Twyford in PREFACE . ix.
... , a guard thus set against the claim , by a family , of what was meant for a nation , as neither in his life " gave to a party what was meant for mankind . " CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. AUTOBIOGRAPHY , commenced at Twyford in PREFACE . ix.
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... parties . At his table he liked to have , as often as he could , some sensible friend or neighbor to converse with , and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse , which might tend to improve the minds of ...
... parties . At his table he liked to have , as often as he could , some sensible friend or neighbor to converse with , and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse , which might tend to improve the minds of ...
Página 32
... party , and , from the arbi- trary proceedings of the Assembly in my brother's case , it was likely I might , if I stayed , soon bring myself into scrapes ; and further , that my indiscreet disputations about religion began to make me ...
... party , and , from the arbi- trary proceedings of the Assembly in my brother's case , it was likely I might , if I stayed , soon bring myself into scrapes ; and further , that my indiscreet disputations about religion began to make me ...
Página 145
... parties . " That the view of these parties is their present general interest , or what they take to be such . " That the ... party has gained its general K point , each member becomes intent upon his partic- ular LIFE OF FRANKLIN . 145.
... parties . " That the view of these parties is their present general interest , or what they take to be such . " That the ... party has gained its general K point , each member becomes intent upon his partic- ular LIFE OF FRANKLIN . 145.
Términos y frases comunes
acquainted adelphia affairs afterward agent America answer appeared appointed arrived Assembly Benjamin Franklin Boston Britain British captain character colonies commissioners Congress continued conversation defense desired disputes doctor duty endeavored enemies England father favor France Franklin French friends gave give Gnadenhutten governor hands honor hundred Indians instructions Joseph Galloway Keimer letter lodging London Lord Chatham Lord Dartmouth Lord Hillsborough Lord Kames Lord Loudoun measures ment minister ministry never obtained occasion officers opinion paid pamphlet paper Parliament party Pennsylvania persons petition Philadelphia pounds sterling present printed printer printing-house procure proposed proprietaries province Quakers Ralph received respect sailed seemed sent ship soon Stamp Act street taken thing Thomas Penn thought thousand pounds tion told took treaty wagons William Temple Franklin writing wrote young
Pasajes populares
Página 116 - Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme! O teach me what is good; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!
Página 116 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Página 114 - I crossed these columns with thirteen red lines, marking the beginning of each line with the first letter of one of the virtues; on which line, and in its proper column, I might mark by a little black spot, every fault I found upon examination to have been committed respecting that virtue, upon that day.* FORM OF THE PAGES.
Página 26 - I conceive or apprehend a thing to be so and so ; it appears to me, or I should think it so or so, for such and such reasons ; or I imagine it to be so; or it is so, if I am not mistaken. This habit, I believe, has been of great advantage to me when I have had occasion to inculcate my opinions, and persuade men into measures that I have been from time to time...
Página 93 - I had been of some service, thought fit to reward me by employing me in printing the money ; a very profitable job and a great help to me.
Página 507 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Página 25 - While I was intent on improving my language, I met with an English grammar (I think it was Greenwood's), at the end of which there were two little sketches of the arts of rhetoric and logic, the latter finishing with a specimen of a dispute in the Socratic method ; and soon after I procured Xenophon's Memorable Things of Socrates, wherein there are many instances of the same method.
Página 86 - I compos'd of it a sheet a day, and Meredith worked it off at press; it was often eleven at night, and sometimes later, before I had finished my distribution for the next day's work, for the little jobs sent in by our other friends now and then put us back.
Página 21 - We sometimes disputed, and very fond we were of argument, and very desirous of confuting one another, which disputatious turn, by the way, is apt to become a very bad habit, making people often extremely disagreeable in company by the contradiction that is necessary to bring it into practice...
Página 112 - My intention being to acquire the habitude of all these virtues, I judg'd it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at once, but to fix it on one of them at a time ; and, when I should be master of that, then to proceed to another, and so on, till I should have gone through the thirteen...