The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author, Volumen1Whittemore, Niles, and Hall, 1856 |
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... affairs with the Speaker of the Assembly . A few only of his letters , written on the business of this agency , have ... affair at Lexington , the town of Boston was surrounded by American troops , and all intercourse with the country ...
... affairs with the Speaker of the Assembly . A few only of his letters , written on the business of this agency , have ... affair at Lexington , the town of Boston was surrounded by American troops , and all intercourse with the country ...
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... Affairs . Assists Mr. Quincy in procuring Aids for New Eng- land . Visits General Braddock's Army in Maryland . - Procures Horses and Wagons to facilitate the March of the Army . - Ob- tains Supplies for the Officers.- Character of ...
... Affairs . Assists Mr. Quincy in procuring Aids for New Eng- land . Visits General Braddock's Army in Maryland . - Procures Horses and Wagons to facilitate the March of the Army . - Ob- tains Supplies for the Officers.- Character of ...
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... Affairs in Pennsylvania . - Defects of the Government . Legislation . Conduct of the Proprietaries . - Object of Franklin's Agency in England . - Collinson , Miss Stevenson , Strahan , Gov- ernor Shirley , Beccaria , Musschenbroek ...
... Affairs in Pennsylvania . - Defects of the Government . Legislation . Conduct of the Proprietaries . - Object of Franklin's Agency in England . - Collinson , Miss Stevenson , Strahan , Gov- ernor Shirley , Beccaria , Musschenbroek ...
Página xxix
... Affair.- Franklin's Sentiments in Regard to Can- ada . Writes a Pamphlet to show that it ought to be retained at the ... Affairs . Mas- sacre of Indians in Lancaster . — Franklin's Pamphlet on the Sub- ject , and his Agency in pacifying ...
... Affair.- Franklin's Sentiments in Regard to Can- ada . Writes a Pamphlet to show that it ought to be retained at the ... Affairs . Mas- sacre of Indians in Lancaster . — Franklin's Pamphlet on the Sub- ject , and his Agency in pacifying ...
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... affairs , from the year 1641 to 1717. Many of the volumes are wanting , as appears by their numbering , but there still remain eight volumes in folio , and twenty in quarto and in octavo . A dealer in old books had met with them , and ...
... affairs , from the year 1641 to 1717. Many of the volumes are wanting , as appears by their numbering , but there still remain eight volumes in folio , and twenty in quarto and in octavo . A dealer in old books had met with them , and ...
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Página 514 - God governs in the affairs of men! And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, sir, in the sacred writings, that except the lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
Página 111 - 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 110 - 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 597 - 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 106 - ORDER Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
Página 138 - At any other time, friend Hopkinson, I would lend to thee freely; but not now; for thee seems to be out of thy right senses.
Página 571 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Página 10 - My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the church. My early readiness in learning to read (which must have been very early, as I do not remember when I could not read ) and the opinion of all his friends that I should certainly make a good scholar encouraged him in this purpose of his. My uncle Benjamin, too, approved of it, and proposed to...
Página 177 - Its fate was singular : the assemblies did not adopt it, as they all thought there was too much prerogative in it, and in England it was judged to have too much of the democratic.
Página 92 - In order to secure my credit and character as a tradesman, I took care not only to be in reality industrious and frugal, but to avoid all appearances to the contrary.