The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinHoughton Mifflin, 1923 - 286 páginas |
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... incom- pleteness . Yet , considered either as a human document or as a piece of artistic construction , the Autobiog- raphy is but superficially incomplete . For many readers , Ben Franklin the printer , provincial phi- losopher.
... incom- pleteness . Yet , considered either as a human document or as a piece of artistic construction , the Autobiog- raphy is but superficially incomplete . For many readers , Ben Franklin the printer , provincial phi- losopher.
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... pieces addressed to his friends and relations , of which the following , sent to me , is a specimen . He had formed a short - hand of his own , which he taught me , but , never practising it , I have now for- got it . I was named after ...
... pieces addressed to his friends and relations , of which the following , sent to me , is a specimen . He had formed a short - hand of his own , which he taught me , but , never practising it , I have now for- got it . I was named after ...
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... pieces , but only one of them was printed , which I saw now many years since . It was written in 1675 , in the home - spun verse of that time and people , and addressed to those then concerned in the government there . It was in favor ...
... pieces , but only one of them was printed , which I saw now many years since . It was written in 1675 , in the home - spun verse of that time and people , and addressed to those then concerned in the government there . It was in favor ...
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... pieces ; my brother , thinking it might turn to account , encouraged me , and put me on compos- ing occasional ballads . One was called The Light- house Tragedy , and contained an account of the drowning of Captain Worthilake , with his ...
... pieces ; my brother , thinking it might turn to account , encouraged me , and put me on compos- ing occasional ballads . One was called The Light- house Tragedy , and contained an account of the drowning of Captain Worthilake , with his ...
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... pieces for this paper , which gain'd it credit and made it more in demand , and these gentlemen often vis- ited us . Hearing their conversations , and their accounts of the approbation their papers were re- ceived with , I was excited ...
... pieces for this paper , which gain'd it credit and made it more in demand , and these gentlemen often vis- ited us . Hearing their conversations , and their accounts of the approbation their papers were re- ceived with , I was excited ...
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able acquainted advantage affairs afterwards agreed answer appeared Assembly attend become began beginning brought building called captain carried character common conduct considered continued conversation desire England expected father Franklin friends gave give given governor hands heard horses hundred instructions intention interest keep Keimer kind leave length letter lived London means meeting mind nature necessary never obtaining occasion once opinion paid perhaps person Philadelphia pieces poor pounds present printed proposed province Quakers ready reason receive respect says seems sent shillings sometimes soon street success taken thing thought thro tion told took turn virtue waggons week whole writing wrote York young
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Página 25 - I wish well-meaning, sensible men would not lessen their power of doing good by a positive, assuming manner, that seldom fails to disgust, tends to create opposition, and to defeat every one of those purposes for which speech was given to us, to wit, giving or receiving information or pleasure. For if you would inform, a positive and dogmatical manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention.
Página 134 - I concluded at length that the mere speculative conviction, that it was our interest to be completely virtuous, was not sufficient to prevent our slipping; and that the contrary habits must be broken, and good ones acquired and established, before we can have any dependance on a steady uniform rectitude of conduct.
Página 139 - 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 130 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men...
Página 140 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Página 26 - My brother had, in 1720 or 1721, begun to print a newspaper. It was the second that appeared in America, and was called the New England Courant.
Página 140 - I determined to give a week's strict attention to each of the virtues successively. Thus, in the first week, my great guard was to avoid every the least offence against Temperance, leaving the other virtues to their ordinary chance, only marking every evening the faults of the day. Thus, if in the first week I could keep my first line, marked T...
Página 19 - Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into it, except lawyers, university men, and men of all sorts that have been bred at Edinburgh.
Página 113 - About this time, our club meeting, not at a tavern, but in a little room of Mr. Grace's, set apart for that purpose, a proposition was made by me, that, since our books were often...
Página 2 - Life with a considerable Share of Felicity, the conducing Means I made use of, which, with the Blessing of God, so well succeeded, my Posterity may like to know, as they may find some of them suitable to their own Situations, and therefore fit to be imitated.