Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinJ. B. Lippincott & Company, 1869 - 409 páginas |
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... never before seen any of them . ( Autograph , p . 2. ) · My grandfather had four sons that grew up , viz .: Thomas , John , Benjamin and Josiah . I will give you what account I can of them at this distance from my papers , and if these ...
... never before seen any of them . ( Autograph , p . 2. ) · My grandfather had four sons that grew up , viz .: Thomas , John , Benjamin and Josiah . I will give you what account I can of them at this distance from my papers , and if these ...
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... never finish them . Benjamin has made a copy of what is done for you , which shall be sent by the first safe opportunity . " Shortly before this letter was written on the 3d of June of that year — the Doctor wrote to his friend Vaughan ...
... never finish them . Benjamin has made a copy of what is done for you , which shall be sent by the first safe opportunity . " Shortly before this letter was written on the 3d of June of that year — the Doctor wrote to his friend Vaughan ...
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... never be prevailed upon to narrate the humble details of his early days and the simple but interesting anecdotes of his origin , the obscurity of which , although it enhances the talents and the virtues of this great man , may yet wound ...
... never be prevailed upon to narrate the humble details of his early days and the simple but interesting anecdotes of his origin , the obscurity of which , although it enhances the talents and the virtues of this great man , may yet wound ...
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... never be solved . * The following letter from William Temple Franklin , in London , to M. le Veillard , was written in the spring of 1791 , but subsequent to the appearance of the French translation . He represents himself as still ...
... never be solved . * The following letter from William Temple Franklin , in London , to M. le Veillard , was written in the spring of 1791 , but subsequent to the appearance of the French translation . He represents himself as still ...
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... which he had been educated to expect some diplomatic appoint- ment . Immediately after his grandfather's death he left the United States under a feeling of disappointment , if not of disgust , at their ingratitude , and never 44.
... which he had been educated to expect some diplomatic appoint- ment . Immediately after his grandfather's death he left the United States under a feeling of disappointment , if not of disgust , at their ingratitude , and never 44.
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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.