The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinHoughton Mifflin, 1923 - 235 páginas Industry, honesty, and an eye for the ladies are ever apparent in this candid self-portrait, from his humble birth in 1706 to the beginnings of his greatness in 1757. |
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... Street to Cleveland Square before noon on Monday . There is no delivery at any price on Sunday . I was on the point of deciding what I had been debating ever since morning to take a go and return ticket and carry box and baggage to Lon ...
... Street to Cleveland Square before noon on Monday . There is no delivery at any price on Sunday . I was on the point of deciding what I had been debating ever since morning to take a go and return ticket and carry box and baggage to Lon ...
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... street ballad style ; and when they were printed he sent me about the town to sell them . The first sold wonderfully , the event being recent , having made a great noise . This flattered my vanity ; but my father discour- aged me by ...
... street ballad style ; and when they were printed he sent me about the town to sell them . The first sold wonderfully , the event being recent , having made a great noise . This flattered my vanity ; but my father discour- aged me by ...
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... streets to the customers . He had some ingenious men among his friends , who amus'd themselves by writing little pieces for this paper , which gain'd it credit and made it more in demand , and these gentlemen often vis- ited us ...
... streets to the customers . He had some ingenious men among his friends , who amus'd themselves by writing little pieces for this paper , which gain'd it credit and made it more in demand , and these gentlemen often vis- ited us ...
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... we saw as soon as we got out of the creek , and arriv'd there about eight or nine o'clock on the Sunday morning , and landed at the Market - street wharf . I have been the more particular in this descrip- tion 36 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF.
... we saw as soon as we got out of the creek , and arriv'd there about eight or nine o'clock on the Sunday morning , and landed at the Market - street wharf . I have been the more particular in this descrip- tion 36 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF.
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... street , gazing about till near the market - house I met a boy with bread . I had made many a meal on bread , and , inquiring where he got it , I went immediately to the baker's he directed me to , in Second - street , and ask'd for ...
... street , gazing about till near the market - house I met a boy with bread . I had made many a meal on bread , and , inquiring where he got it , I went immediately to the baker's he directed me to , in Second - street , and ask'd for ...
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accordingly acquainted advis'd affairs afterwards appear'd arriv'd Art of Virtue ask'd Assembly attend Autobiography began BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Boston bred brother brought call'd captain character conduct continu'd continued dispute Ecton employ'd England eral father form'd Fort Duquesne Franklin friends gave give good-natur'd governor hands horses ingenious instructions Keimer length letter Little Britain lived lodging London Lord Loudoun Madeira wine means ment ness never oblig'd occasion opinion paid paper paquet pass'd perhaps person Philadelphia porringer pounds sterling present printed printer printing-house propos'd proposed proprietaries province Quakers Ralph ready receiv'd return'd Riddlesden sail says sect seem'd sent shillings ship Socratic method soon street thing thought thousand pounds thro tion told took us'd Veillard virtue waggons William Temple Franklin work'd writing wrote young
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Página 16 - Essays to do Good, which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life.
Página 130 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Página 134 - It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection. I wished to live without committing any fault at any time; I would conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other.
Página 135 - In the various enumerations of the moral virtues I had met with in my reading, I found the catalogue more or less numerous, as different writers included more or fewer ideas under the »/ * same name.
Página 130 - It was lucky for me that I had one as much dispos'd to industry and frugality as myself. She assisted me cheerfully in my business, folding and stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper-makers, etc., etc. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and simple, our furniture of the cheapest. For instance, my breakfast was a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon. But mark how luxury will enter families,...
Página 140 - I determined to give a week's strict attention to each of the virtues successively. Thus, in the first week, my great guard was to avoid every the least offence against Temperance, leaving the other virtues to their ordinary chance, only marking every evening the faults of the day. Thus, if in the first week I could keep my first line, marked T...
Página 140 - 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 177 - His delivery of the latter was so improved by frequent repetition, that every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse ; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music.
Página 22 - I could not, as it seemed to me, afford time to practise it. When about 16 years of age I happened to meet with a book, written by one Tryon, recommending a vegetable diet. I determined to go into it. My brother, being...
Página 38 - I sat down among them, and, after looking round awhile and hearing nothing said, being very drowsy through labor and want of rest the preceding night, I fell fast asleep, and continued so till the meeting broke up, when one was kind enough to rouse me. This was, therefore, the first house I was in, or slept in, in Philadelphia.