Memoirs of the Life & Writings of Benjamin FranklinDent, 1927 - 314 páginas |
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... natural in old men , to be talking of themselves and their own past actions ; and I shall indulge it with- out being tiresome to others , who , through respect to age , might conceive themselves obliged to give me a hearing , since this ...
... natural in old men , to be talking of themselves and their own past actions ; and I shall indulge it with- out being tiresome to others , who , through respect to age , might conceive themselves obliged to give me a hearing , since this ...
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... natural philo- sophy , to come with mine and me to New York , where he propos'd to wait for me . My father , tho ' he did not approve Sir William's proposition , was yet pleas'd that I had been able to obtain so advantageous a character ...
... natural philo- sophy , to come with mine and me to New York , where he propos'd to wait for me . My father , tho ' he did not approve Sir William's proposition , was yet pleas'd that I had been able to obtain so advantageous a character ...
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... Nature . " Some of his reasonings not appearing to me well founded , I wrote a little metaphysical piece in which I made remarks on them . It was entitled " A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity , Pleasure and Pain . " I inscribed it ...
... Nature . " Some of his reasonings not appearing to me well founded , I wrote a little metaphysical piece in which I made remarks on them . It was entitled " A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity , Pleasure and Pain . " I inscribed it ...
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... natural parts , and great wit and humour , but a little idle . These he had agreed with at extream low wages per week , to be rais'd a shilling every three months , as they would deserve by improving in their business ; and the ...
... natural parts , and great wit and humour , but a little idle . These he had agreed with at extream low wages per week , to be rais'd a shilling every three months , as they would deserve by improving in their business ; and the ...
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... natures , all the circumstances of things considered . And this persuasion , with the kind hand of Provi- dence , or some guardian angel , or accidental favor- able circumstances and situatione , or all together , preserved me , thro ...
... natures , all the circumstances of things considered . And this persuasion , with the kind hand of Provi- dence , or some guardian angel , or accidental favor- able circumstances and situatione , or all together , preserved me , thro ...
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acquaintance Adams affairs afterwards America appear'd appointed arriv'd Art of Virtue Arthur Lee Assembly attend Autobiography began Benjamin Franklin Boston British brother brought call'd captain character colonies colonists Comte de Vergennes conduct Congress continu'd continued dispute Dr Franklin employ'd England English father favour France French friends gave give good-natur'd Government governor hands Indians instructions interest John Adams Keimer kind King letters lived London Lord Lord Loudoun means ment mind never occasion opinion pamphlet paper Paxton Boy Penn Pennsylvania perhaps person Philadelphia Poor Richard's Almanack present printed printer printing-house propos'd proposed proprietaries province Quakers Ralph reason receiv'd respect sail sect sent ship Silas Deane soon Stamp Act street Temple Franklin things thought thro tion took treaty Veillard virtue waggons whole words writing wrote young
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Página 97 - I was now and then prevail'd on to do so, once for five Sundays successively. Had he been in my opinion a good preacher, perhaps I might have continued, notwithstanding the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study ; but his discourses were chiefly either polemic arguments, or explications of the peculiar doctrines of our sect, and were all to me very dry, uninteresting, and unedifying, since not a single moral principle was inculcated or enforc'd, their aim seeming to be rather...
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Página 103 - 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 95 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Página 114 - I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, makes the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.
Página 104 - 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 feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Página 22 - For, if you would inform, a positive and dogmatical manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly...
Página 25 - ... secrets. During my brother's confinement, which I resented a good deal, notwithstanding our private differences, I had the management of the paper; and I made bold to give our rulers some rubs in it, which my brother took very kindly, while others began to consider me in an unfavorable light, as a young genius that had a turn for libelling and satyr.
Página 30 - Second-street, and ask'd for bisket, intending such as we had in Boston; but they, it seems, were not made in Philadelphia. Then I asked for a three-penny loaf, and was told they had none such. So not considering or knowing the difference of money, and the greater cheapness nor the names of his bread, I bade him give me three-penny worth of any sort. He gave me, accordingly, three great puffy rolls. I was...
Página 17 - I now took a fancy to poetry, and made some little pieces ; my brother, thinking it might turn to account, encouraged me, and put me on composing occasional ballads. One was called The Lighthouse Tragedy...