The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinH. Altemus, 1895 - 287 páginas Charming self-portrait covers boyhood, work as a printer, political career, scientific experiments, much more. Its openness, honesty, and readable style have made the "Autobiography" one of the great classics of the genre. |
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... turning it in dealing , which , by the time that a young man becomes old , will amount to a considera- ble sum of money . " This may be , and has been characterized by some as , very worldly wisdom ; but as Franklin himself has pointed ...
... turning it in dealing , which , by the time that a young man becomes old , will amount to a considera- ble sum of money . " This may be , and has been characterized by some as , very worldly wisdom ; but as Franklin himself has pointed ...
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... turn of thinking , that had an influence on some of the prin- cipal future events of my life . This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make me a printer , though he had already one son , James , of that profession ...
... turn of thinking , that had an influence on some of the prin- cipal future events of my life . This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make me a printer , though he had already one son , James , of that profession ...
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... turn to account , encouraged me , and in- duced me to compose two occasional ballads . One was called The Light - House Tragedy , and contained an account of the shipwreck of Captain Worthilake with his two daughters ; the other was a ...
... turn to account , encouraged me , and in- duced me to compose two occasional ballads . One was called The Light - House Tragedy , and contained an account of the shipwreck of Captain Worthilake with his two daughters ; the other was a ...
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... turn , by the way , is apt to become a very bad habit , making people often extremely disagreeable in company , by the con- tradiction that is necessary to bring it into practice ; and thence , besides souring and spoiling the conver ...
... turn , by the way , is apt to become a very bad habit , making people often extremely disagreeable in company , by the con- tradiction that is necessary to bring it into practice ; and thence , besides souring and spoiling the conver ...
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... turn for libelling and satire . My brother's discharge was accompanied with an order , and a very odd one , " James Franklin should no longer print the newspaper called The New Eng- land Courant . " On a consultation held in our print ...
... turn for libelling and satire . My brother's discharge was accompanied with an order , and a very odd one , " James Franklin should no longer print the newspaper called The New Eng- land Courant . " On a consultation held in our print ...
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Términos y frases comunes
accordingly acquaintance advantage affairs afterwards appeared arrived ART OF VIRTUE Assembly attend began Benjamin Franklin Boston bred brother brought called captain conduct continued debt defence desired dispute employed endeavour England England Courant father favour friends gave give Governor hand honour horses Hugh Meredith hundred pounds inhabitants instructions Keimer length letters Little Britain lived lodged London Lord Loudoun means Meredith ness never newspaper obtained occasion officers opinion paid pamphlet paper partnership Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Gazette perhaps Philadelphia piece poor Poor Richard's Almanac pounds currency pounds sterling preached printed printer printing-house procure proposed Proprietaries province Quakers Ralph received sailed sect seems sent sermons shillings sometimes soon street subscription things thought thousand pounds tion told took uncle Benjamin virtue wagons Whitefield writing wrote York young
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Página 149 - ORDER Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4 RESOLUTION Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
Página 41 - I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the writing excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it.
Página 155 - 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 60 - I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water ; and being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther. Thus refreshed, I walked again up the street, which by this time had many clean-dressed people in it, who were all walking the same way.
Página 46 - Tis not enough your counsel still be true ; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do ; Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Página 154 - 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 33 - At his table he liked to have, as often as he could, some sensible friend or neighbour to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse, which might tend to improve the minds of his children. By this means he turned our attention to what was good, just, and prudent, in the conduct of life; and little or no notice was ever taken of what related to the victuals on the table; whether it was well or ill dressed, in or out of season, of good or bad flavor, preferable...
Página 159 - ... a speckled ax was best"; for something, that pretended to be reason, was every now and then suggesting to me that such extream nicety as I exacted of myself might be a kind of foppery in morals, which, if it were known, would make me ridiculous; that a perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
Página 42 - I had gone on making verses ; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. Therefore, I took some of the tales and turned them into verse ; and after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again.
Página 154 - I could go thro' a course complete in thirteen weeks, and four courses in a year. And like him who, having a garden to weed, does not attempt to eradicate all the bad herbs at once, which would exceed his reach and his strength, but works on one of the beds at a time, and having...