The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinHoughton, Mifflin & Company, 1906 - 183 páginas |
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accordingly acquaintance acquir'd advantage affairs afterwards appear'd arriv'd Art of Virtue ask'd Assembly attend Autobiography began Benjamin Franklin Boston bred brother brought call'd captain character conduct continu'd continued dispute Ecton employ'd England ENGLAND COURANT father form'd friends gave give good-natur'd governor grant money hand horses Hugh Meredith inhabitants instructions Keimer length letters Little Britain lived lodging London Lord Loudoun Madeira wine means never occasion occasion'd opinion paid pamphlet paper perhaps persons Philadelphia pieces present printed printer printing-house procure propos'd proposed proprietaries province Quakers Ralph ready receiv'd refus'd return'd sail says sect seem'd sent shillings ship soon Stephen Potts street thing thought thousand pounds thro tion told took town us'd virtue waggons William William Penn William Temple Franklin writing wrote young youth
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Página 83 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Página 13 - I thought the writing excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it. With this view I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiment in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected...
Página 100 - I therefore filled all the little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue, it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly ; as. to use here one of those proverbs, ' It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.
Página 110 - 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 coppers.
Página 14 - Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected them. But I found I wanted a stock of words, or a readiness in recollecting and using them...
Página 16 - I conceive or apprehend a thing to be so and so; it appears to me, or I should think it so or so, for such and such reasons; or I imagine it to be so; or it is so, if I am not mistaken. This habit, I 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 engaged in promoting...
Página 88 - My intention being to acquire the habitude of all these virtues, I judged it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at once but to fix it on one of them at a time, and when I should be master of that, then to proceed to another, and so on till I should have gone thro
Página 24 - I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there. I was in my working dress, my best clothes being to come round by sea. I was dirty from my journey; my pockets were stuffed out with shirts and stockings, and I knew no soul nor where to look for lodging.
Página 17 - Men should be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot; farther recommending to us, To speak, though' sure, with seeming diffidence.
Página 21 - ... than I had ever seen it wear in its own language. I have since found that it has been translated into most of the languages of Europe, and suppose it has been more generally read than any other book, except perhaps the Bible. Honest John was the first that I know of who...