Memoirs of the Life & Writings of Benjamin FranklinDent, 1927 - 314 páginas |
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... never long intermitted , he was dragged again into the conflict and toil of public life ; so that for three years his European friends , ceaselessly importuning him in the same old cause , got little comfort in return except his ...
... never long intermitted , he was dragged again into the conflict and toil of public life ; so that for three years his European friends , ceaselessly importuning him in the same old cause , got little comfort in return except his ...
Página xviii
... never been made good . The only piece of posi- tive evidence in favour of the idea is this : that Jefferson speaks of having read a certain passage in the MS . of Franklin's account of the Secret Negotiations carried on during the ...
... never been made good . The only piece of posi- tive evidence in favour of the idea is this : that Jefferson speaks of having read a certain passage in the MS . of Franklin's account of the Secret Negotiations carried on during the ...
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... never practising it , I have now forgot it . I was named after this uncle , there being a parti- cular affection between him and my father . He was very pious , a great attender of sermons of the best preachers , which he took down in ...
... never practising it , I have now forgot it . I was named after this uncle , there being a parti- cular affection between him and my father . He was very pious , a great attender of sermons of the best preachers , which he took down in ...
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... never employed , the numerous family he had to educate and the straitness of his circumstances keep- ing him close to his trade ; but I remember well his being frequently visited by leading people , who consulted him for his opinion in ...
... never employed , the numerous family he had to educate and the straitness of his circumstances keep- ing him close to his trade ; but I remember well his being frequently visited by leading people , who consulted him for his opinion in ...
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... never knew either my father or mother to have any sickness but that of which they dy'd , he at 89 , and she at 85 years of age . They lie buried together at Boston , where I some years since placed a marble over their grave , with this ...
... never knew either my father or mother to have any sickness but that of which they dy'd , he at 89 , and she at 85 years of age . They lie buried together at Boston , where I some years since placed a marble over their grave , with this ...
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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...