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... hope it . I have put off my journey to Virginia , and you may depend on my best services for the common welfare , so far as my little influence extends . 66 " I am your affectionate kinsman and humble servant , 66 B. FRANKLIN . My best ...
... hope it . I have put off my journey to Virginia , and you may depend on my best services for the common welfare , so far as my little influence extends . 66 " I am your affectionate kinsman and humble servant , 66 B. FRANKLIN . My best ...
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... hope I shall be quest of leave to copy the letters , I said no- thing of them then , postponing that subject to an opportunity which was expected two days after , viz : June 4th , when my letter of that date concludes thus : - " As to ...
... hope I shall be quest of leave to copy the letters , I said no- thing of them then , postponing that subject to an opportunity which was expected two days after , viz : June 4th , when my letter of that date concludes thus : - " As to ...
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... hope his appointment as a favour to me . the congress will grant me , by sending some person to supply my place . " At the same time I beg they may be as- sured , that it is not any the least doubt of their success in the glorious cause ...
... hope his appointment as a favour to me . the congress will grant me , by sending some person to supply my place . " At the same time I beg they may be as- sured , that it is not any the least doubt of their success in the glorious cause ...
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... hope he will take care to cultivate that disposition . You who know the leading people of both coun tries , can perhaps judge better than any member of congress of a person suitable for this station . I wish you may be in the way to ...
... hope he will take care to cultivate that disposition . You who know the leading people of both coun tries , can perhaps judge better than any member of congress of a person suitable for this station . I wish you may be in the way to ...
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... hope it may be adopted , though I shall have nothing to do with the execution of it , being deter- mined to quit all public business with my pre- sent employment . * At 83 one certainly has a right to ambition repose . " To the same ...
... hope it may be adopted , though I shall have nothing to do with the execution of it , being deter- mined to quit all public business with my pre- sent employment . * At 83 one certainly has a right to ambition repose . " To the same ...
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Página 198 - The Body Of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, (Like the cover of an old book, Its contents torn out, And stript of its lettering and gilding,) Lies here, food for worms. But the work shall not be lost, For it will, as he believed, appear once more, In a new and more elegant edition, Revised and corrected By THE AUTHOR.
Página 34 - Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; ie, waste nothing. 6. INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. 7. SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
Página 33 - For instance, my breakfast was a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon.
Página 34 - Temperance, for example, was by some confined to eating and drinking, while by others it was extended to mean the moderating every other pleasure, appetite, inclination, or passion — bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition.
Página 43 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften and concluded to give the copper.
Página 6 - Spectator, and turned them into verse : and after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. I also sometimes jumbled my...
Página 370 - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Página 34 - I crossed these columns with thirteen red lines, marking the beginning of each line with the first letter of one of the virtues; on which line, and in its proper column, I might mark by a little black spot, every fault I found upon examination to have been committed respecting that virtue, upon that day I determined to give a week's strict attention to each of the virtues successively.
Página 7 - ... believe, has been of great advantage to me when I have had occasion- to inculcate my opinions, and persuade men into measures that I have been from time to time...
Página 10 - He gave me, accordingly, three great puffy rolls. I was surprised at the quantity, but took it, and having no room in my pockets, walked off with a roll under each arm and eating the other. Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr.