Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinJ. B. Lippincott & Company, 1869 - 409 páginas |
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... thought a duty , though I could not , as it seemed to me , afford time to practice it . ( Autograph , p . 22. ) He agreed with the captain of a New York sloop for my passage , under the notion of my being a young acquaintance of his ...
... thought a duty , though I could not , as it seemed to me , afford time to practice it . ( Autograph , p . 22. ) He agreed with the captain of a New York sloop for my passage , under the notion of my being a young acquaintance of his ...
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... thought it impracticable , so they went away , and night coming on , we had no remedy but to wait till the wind should abate ; and , in the meantime , the boatman and I con- cluded to sleep if we could ; and so crowded into the scuttle ...
... thought it impracticable , so they went away , and night coming on , we had no remedy but to wait till the wind should abate ; and , in the meantime , the boatman and I con- cluded to sleep if we could ; and so crowded into the scuttle ...
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... thought that it would be curious to compare the history of a writer who seemed to have used his brilliant imagination merely to render himself miserable , with that of a philosopher who employed all the resources of an equally gifted ...
... thought that it would be curious to compare the history of a writer who seemed to have used his brilliant imagination merely to render himself miserable , with that of a philosopher who employed all the resources of an equally gifted ...
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... thought to convict us , and was also attributed , in part , to motives not entirely honorable to the person directly responsible for the delay . The Edinburgh Review gave the most solemn expression to the public discontent in a review ...
... thought to convict us , and was also attributed , in part , to motives not entirely honorable to the person directly responsible for the delay . The Edinburgh Review gave the most solemn expression to the public discontent in a review ...
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... thought the best way was to strangle all the innocents in the vicinage . " William Temple's tardy vindication from these imputa- tions is given in the preface to his edition of his grand- father's works . He there admits that he delayed ...
... thought the best way was to strangle all the innocents in the vicinage . " William Temple's tardy vindication from these imputa- tions is given in the preface to his edition of his grand- father's works . He there admits that he delayed ...
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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.