Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinJ. B. Lippincott & Company, 1869 - 409 páginas |
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... propose to lay before the reader such information as I have been able to glean from a variety of sources , both published and unpublished , leaving him to draw from them such con- clusions as he thinks the testimony will warrant . The ...
... propose to lay before the reader such information as I have been able to glean from a variety of sources , both published and unpublished , leaving him to draw from them such con- clusions as he thinks the testimony will warrant . The ...
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... proposed new Constitution ; there remain five who have not yet dis- cussed it , their appointed times of meeting not having yet arrived . Two are to meet this month ; the rest later . One more agreeing , it will be carried into ...
... proposed new Constitution ; there remain five who have not yet dis- cussed it , their appointed times of meeting not having yet arrived . Two are to meet this month ; the rest later . One more agreeing , it will be carried into ...
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... propose to make as soon as possible , of his entire Life and of his other works . As I have the original here of the part which you have , it will not be necessary for you to send it to me , but I beg you at all events to put it in an ...
... propose to make as soon as possible , of his entire Life and of his other works . As I have the original here of the part which you have , it will not be necessary for you to send it to me , but I beg you at all events to put it in an ...
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... proposed by the American phi- losopher in writing these Memoirs was , to instruct pos- terity and amuse his own leisure hours . He has permitted his ideas to flow at the will of his memory and his heart , without ever making any effort ...
... proposed by the American phi- losopher in writing these Memoirs was , to instruct pos- terity and amuse his own leisure hours . He has permitted his ideas to flow at the will of his memory and his heart , without ever making any effort ...
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... proposals were suddenly withdrawn , and nothing more has been heard of the work in this its fair and natural market . " The proprietor , it seems , had found a bidder of a dif- ferent description in some emissary of government , whose ...
... proposals were suddenly withdrawn , and nothing more has been heard of the work in this its fair and natural market . " The proprietor , it seems , had found a bidder of a dif- ferent description in some emissary of government , whose ...
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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.