Franklins̓ Autobiography, Volumen10American Book Company, 1910 - 205 páginas |
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Página 39
... shilling in copper.1 The latter I gave the people of the boat for my passage , who at first refused it , on account of my rowing ; but I insisted on their taking it , a man being sometimes more gen- erous when he has but a little money ...
... shilling in copper.1 The latter I gave the people of the boat for my passage , who at first refused it , on account of my rowing ; but I insisted on their taking it , a man being sometimes more gen- erous when he has but a little money ...
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... shillings and sixpence a week , -as much as we could then afford . He found some relations , but they were poor , and unable to assist him . He now let me know his intentions of remaining in London , and that he never meant to return to ...
... shillings and sixpence a week , -as much as we could then afford . He found some relations , but they were poor , and unable to assist him . He now let me know his intentions of remaining in London , and that he never meant to return to ...
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... shillings to pay out of his wages every Saturday night for that muddling liquor - an expense I was free from . And thus these poor devils keep themselves always under . Watts after some weeks desiring to have me in the composing room ...
... shillings to pay out of his wages every Saturday night for that muddling liquor - an expense I was free from . And thus these poor devils keep themselves always under . Watts after some weeks desiring to have me in the composing room ...
Página 63
... shillings a week on their ac- counts . This , and my being esteemed a pretty good " riggite , ” — that is , a jocular verbal satirist , -supported my consequence in the so- ciety . My constant attendance ( I never making a Saint Monday ...
... shillings a week on their ac- counts . This , and my being esteemed a pretty good " riggite , ” — that is , a jocular verbal satirist , -supported my consequence in the so- ciety . My constant attendance ( I never making a Saint Monday ...
Página 64
... shillings a week , which , intent as I now was on saving money , made some difference , she bid me not think of it , for she would abate me two shillings a week for the future ; so I remained with her at one shilling and sixpence as ...
... shillings a week , which , intent as I now was on saving money , made some difference , she bid me not think of it , for she would abate me two shillings a week for the future ; so I remained with her at one shilling and sixpence as ...
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Página 29 - By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extreamly ambitious.
Página 109 - 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 12 - MR. STRAHAN, You are a member of parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. — You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our people. — Look upon your hands! — They are stained with the blood of your relations ! — You and I were long friends: — You are now my enemy, — and I am • Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
Página 195 - The cat in gloves catches no mice! as Poor Richard says. 'Tis true there is much to be done, and perhaps you are weak-handed; but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects; for Constant dropping wears away stones; and By diligence and patience the mouse ate in two the cable; and Little strokes fell great oaks...
Página 28 - 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 sentiments 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...
Página 103 - ... a speckled ax was best;" for something, that pretended to be reason, was every now and then suggesting to me that such extream nicety as I exacted of myself might be a kind of foppery in morals, which, if it were known, would make me ridiculous ; that a perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated ; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
Página 121 - The request was fortunately made to perhaps the only man in the company who had the firmness not to be affected by the preacher. His answer was, "At any other time, friend Hopkinson, I would lend' to thee freely ; but not now ; for thee seems to me to be out of thy right senses
Página 195 - But with our Industry, we must likewise be steady, settled and careful, and oversee our own Affairs with our own Eyes, and not trust too much to others; for, as Poor Richard says I never saw an oft-removed Tree, Nor yet an oft-removed Family, That throve so well as those that settled be.
Página 85 - ... to show that I was not above my business, I sometimes brought home the paper I purchased at the stores thro' the streets on a wheelbarrow.
Página 194 - Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears; while the used key is always bright, as Poor Richard says. But dost thou love life' then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of, as Poor Richard says. How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep? forgetting, that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.