Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinJ. B. Lippincott & Company, 1869 - 409 páginas |
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... less than six months after his letter of the 2d of November to Mr. Vaughan . By his will , made in the summer of 1788 , he bequeathed his books , manuscripts , and papers , after deducting a few special be- quests , to his grandson ...
... less than six months after his letter of the 2d of November to Mr. Vaughan . By his will , made in the summer of 1788 , he bequeathed his books , manuscripts , and papers , after deducting a few special be- quests , to his grandson ...
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... less shocked by it when it arrived . He loved you very tenderly , as he did all your family , and I do not doubt you will share my just sorrow . I intended writing you the details of his death by M. de Chaumont , but the duty of ...
... less shocked by it when it arrived . He loved you very tenderly , as he did all your family , and I do not doubt you will share my just sorrow . I intended writing you the details of his death by M. de Chaumont , but the duty of ...
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... less im- portant ( which , by the way , you cannot possibly be a judge of ) —I can assure you I have given it all the atten- tion I could , consistent with the important concerns above alluded to , in which others being interested ...
... less im- portant ( which , by the way , you cannot possibly be a judge of ) —I can assure you I have given it all the atten- tion I could , consistent with the important concerns above alluded to , in which others being interested ...
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... less reserved in con- versation . Dr. John W. Francis , of New York , saw him often in London in the year 1S16 , while he was preparing his grandfather's papers for the press . To me , ' says Dr. Francis , ' he peremptorily denied all ...
... less reserved in con- versation . Dr. John W. Francis , of New York , saw him often in London in the year 1S16 , while he was preparing his grandfather's papers for the press . To me , ' says Dr. Francis , ' he peremptorily denied all ...
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... less , at last as propitious a market as he could have hoped for had he published earlier . Whether he did profit by this delay , and if so , in what way and to what extent , will probably never be known with absolute certainty . Every ...
... less , at last as propitious a market as he could have hoped for had he published earlier . Whether he did profit by this delay , and if so , in what way and to what extent , will probably never be known with absolute certainty . Every ...
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Página 100 - I took a delight in it, practis'd it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not foresee, entangling them in difficulties out of which they could not extricate themselves, and so obtaining victories that neither myself nor my cause always deserved.
Página 113 - Street wharf, near the boat I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water; and being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther.
Página 209 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Página 91 - To return : I continued thus employed in my father's business for two years, that is, till I was twelve years old ; and my brother John, who was bred to that business...
Página 99 - While I was intent on improving my language, I met with an English Grammar (I think it was Greenwood's), at the end of which there were two little sketches of the arts of rhetoric and logic, the latter finishing with a specimen of a dispute in the Socratic method ; and soon after I procured Xenophon's Memorable Things of Socrates, wherein there are many instances of the same method.
Página 274 - I declined it from a principle which has ever weighed with me on such occasions; viz., that as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.
Página 112 - 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 85 - 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.
Página 105 - ... 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. My brother's discharge was accompany'd with an order of the House (a very odd one), that "James Franklin should no longer print the paper called the New England Courant.
Página 102 - I remember his being dissuaded by some of his friends from the undertaking, as not likely to succeed, one newspaper being in their judgment enough for America.