Memoirs of the Life & Writings of Benjamin FranklinDent, 1927 - 314 páginas |
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... becoming in the grandson of his grandfather to such a friend ; but tells him ( Feb. 28 , 1792 ) that “ I am now almost entirely employed in bringing forward the English edition . . . A few months will , I hope , satisfy your impatience ...
... becoming in the grandson of his grandfather to such a friend ; but tells him ( Feb. 28 , 1792 ) that “ I am now almost entirely employed in bringing forward the English edition . . . A few months will , I hope , satisfy your impatience ...
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... become of the MS . of Franklin's Auto- biography , and whether one could not find it if one looked around in that country . He himself believed that , unless it had been destroyed , which seemed un- likely , the incomparable document ...
... become of the MS . of Franklin's Auto- biography , and whether one could not find it if one looked around in that country . He himself believed that , unless it had been destroyed , which seemed un- likely , the incomparable document ...
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... become a tallow - chandler . But my dis- like to the trade continuing , my father was under apprehensions that if he did not find one for me . more agreeable , I should break away and get to sea , as his son Josiah had done , to his ...
... become a tallow - chandler . But my dis- like to the trade continuing , my father was under apprehensions that if he did not find one for me . more agreeable , I should break away and get to sea , as his son Josiah had done , to his ...
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... become a very bad habit , making people often extremely disagreeable in company by the contradiction that is necessary to bring it into practice ; and thence , besides souring and spoiling the conversation , is productive of disgusts ...
... become a very bad habit , making people often extremely disagreeable in company by the contradiction that is necessary to bring it into practice ; and thence , besides souring and spoiling the conversation , is productive of disgusts ...
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... become eminent in it , and make his fortune by it , alleging that the best poets must , when they first began to write , make as many faults as he did . Osborne dissuaded him , assur'd him he had no genius for poetry , and advis'd him ...
... become eminent in it , and make his fortune by it , alleging that the best poets must , when they first began to write , make as many faults as he did . Osborne dissuaded him , assur'd him he had no genius for poetry , and advis'd him ...
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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...