Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1868 - 409 páginas Charming self-portrait covers boyhood, work as a printer, political career, scientific experiments, much more. Its openness, honesty, and readable style have made the "Autobiography" one of the great classics of the genre. |
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Página 63
... Law of my drawing . Made Colonel . Parade of my Officers . Offence to Proprietor . Assist- ance to Boston Ambassadors . Journey with Shirley , & c . Meet with Braddock . Assistance to him . To the Officers of his Army . Furnish him with ...
... Law of my drawing . Made Colonel . Parade of my Officers . Offence to Proprietor . Assist- ance to Boston Ambassadors . Journey with Shirley , & c . Meet with Braddock . Assistance to him . To the Officers of his Army . Furnish him with ...
Página 82
... law , and frequently disturbed , induced some con- siderable men of his acquaintance to remove to that country , and he was prevailed with to accompany them thither , where they expected to enjoy their mode of religion with freedom . By ...
... law , and frequently disturbed , induced some con- siderable men of his acquaintance to remove to that country , and he was prevailed with to accompany them thither , where they expected to enjoy their mode of religion with freedom . By ...
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... laws . The whole appeared to me as written with a good deal of decent plainness and manly freedom . The six concluding lines I remember , though I have forgotten the two first of the stanza ; but the purport of them was , that his ...
... laws . The whole appeared to me as written with a good deal of decent plainness and manly freedom . The six concluding lines I remember , though I have forgotten the two first of the stanza ; but the purport of them was , that his ...
Página 117
... law , Robert Holmes , master of a sloop that traded between Boston and Delaware . He being at Newcastle , forty miles below Philadel- phia , heard there of me , and wrote me a letter men- tioning the concern of my friends in Boston at ...
... law , Robert Holmes , master of a sloop that traded between Boston and Delaware . He being at Newcastle , forty miles below Philadel- phia , heard there of me , and wrote me a letter men- tioning the concern of my friends in Boston at ...
Página 124
... law , Solicitor - General to the Board of Trade ) is to prescribe him a text , to give him a Bible for his companion , and then lock him into a room by himself , and if he does not in some stated time produce a sermon to your ...
... law , Solicitor - General to the Board of Trade ) is to prescribe him a text , to give him a Bible for his companion , and then lock him into a room by himself , and if he does not in some stated time produce a sermon to your ...
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acquaintance advantage affairs afterwards agreeable appear'd appeared arriv'd Art of Virtue Assembly attended Autograph Benjamin Franklin Boston CALIFORN captain character colonies conduct continu'd continued copy desire dispute Ecton Edition of 1817 England English father France French friends gave give good-natur'd governor grandfather hands honor instructions intended Keimer letter LIBRARY Little Britain lived London Lord Loudoun manner manuscript Memoirs ment never Northamptonshire occasion opinion original pamphlet paper Paris Passy perhaps person Philadelphia piece pounds sterling present printed printer printing-house profit propos'd proposed proprietary province published Quakers Ralph receiv'd received says sect sent Society soon Sparks thing thought thro tion took translation uncle Benjamin Union Fire Company UNIVERS UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Veillard Collection virtue waggons William Franklin William Temple Franklin writing written wrote young
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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 101 - If you ask, Why less properly ? I must repeat the lines : " Immodest words admit of no defense For want of modesty is want of sense.
Página 222 - Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Página 229 - And to this habit (after my character of integrity) I think it principally owing that I had early so much weight with my fellow-citizens when I proposed new institutions, or alterations in the old, and so much influence in public councils when I became a member ; for I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct in language, and yet I generally carried my points.
Página 209 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Página 223 - I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had imagined; but I had the satisfaction of seeing them diminish. To avoid the trouble of renewing now and then my little book, which, by scraping out the marks on the paper of old faults to make room for new ones in a new course, became full of holes...
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 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 221 - 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.