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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... received me with great civility , showed me his libra- ry , which was a considerable one , and we had a good deal of conversation relative to books and authors . Collins wished to be employed in some counting house , but whether they ...
... received me with great civility , showed me his libra- ry , which was a considerable one , and we had a good deal of conversation relative to books and authors . Collins wished to be employed in some counting house , but whether they ...
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... receiving his quar- terly allowance of fifteen guineas , instead of discharging his debts he went out of town , hid his gown in a furze bush and walked to London . ( Autograph , p . 53. ) I drank only water , the other workmen , near ...
... receiving his quar- terly allowance of fifteen guineas , instead of discharging his debts he went out of town , hid his gown in a furze bush and walked to London . ( Autograph , p . 53. ) I drank only water , the other workmen , near ...
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... received a note from his friend , Mr. Edward Bancroft , the tenor of which is sufficiently explained in the following extract from the Doctor's reply : " DEAR SIR : " PHILADELPHIA , 26th November , 1785 . " I received your kind letter ...
... received a note from his friend , Mr. Edward Bancroft , the tenor of which is sufficiently explained in the following extract from the Doctor's reply : " DEAR SIR : " PHILADELPHIA , 26th November , 1785 . " I received your kind letter ...
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... received but a few days since your favor of Nov. 30 , 1787 , in which you continue to urge me to finish the Memoirs . My three years of service will expire in Octo- ber , when a new President must be chosen , and I had the project of ...
... received but a few days since your favor of Nov. 30 , 1787 , in which you continue to urge me to finish the Memoirs . My three years of service will expire in Octo- ber , when a new President must be chosen , and I had the project of ...
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... received your kind letter of March 4th , and wish I may be able to complete what you so earnestly desire— the Memoirs of my life . But of late I am so interrupted by extreme pain , which obliges me to have recourse to opium , that ...
... received your kind letter of March 4th , and wish I may be able to complete what you so earnestly desire— the Memoirs of my life . But of late I am so interrupted by extreme pain , which obliges me to have recourse to opium , that ...
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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.