The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac, and Other PapersA. L. Burt, publisher - 308 páginas |
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... and sometimes , as I thought , I was vanquished more by his fluency than by the strength of his reasons . As we parted without settling the point and were not to see one another again for some time BENJAMIN FRANKLIN . 15.
... and sometimes , as I thought , I was vanquished more by his fluency than by the strength of his reasons . As we parted without settling the point and were not to see one another again for some time BENJAMIN FRANKLIN . 15.
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... thought the writing excellent , and wished if possible to imitate it . With that 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 ...
... thought the writing excellent , and wished if possible to imitate it . With that 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 ...
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... thoughts . By comparing my work with the original , I discovered many faults and corrected them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy that in certain particulars of small consequence I had been fortunate enough to improve the ...
... thoughts . By comparing my work with the original , I discovered many faults and corrected them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy that in certain particulars of small consequence I had been fortunate enough to improve the ...
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... thought it tended to make me too vain . This might be one occasion of the differences we began to have about this time . Though a brother , he considered himself as my master and me as his apprentice , and accordingly expected the same ...
... thought it tended to make me too vain . This might be one occasion of the differences we began to have about this time . Though a brother , he considered himself as my master and me as his apprentice , and accordingly expected the same ...
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... thought of going to New York , as the nearest place where there was a printer . And I was rather inclined to leave Boston when I reflected that I had already made myself a little obnoxious to the govern- ing party , and from the ...
... thought of going to New York , as the nearest place where there was a printer . And I was rather inclined to leave Boston when I reflected that I had already made myself a little obnoxious to the govern- ing party , and from the ...
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac, and Other ... Benjamin Franklin Vista de fragmentos - 1900 |
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Página 224 - So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business ; but to these we must add frugality, if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will, as Poor Richard says; and — Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea ' forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting.
Página 230 - This doctrine, my friends, is reason and wisdom; but, after all do not depend too much upon your own industry and frugality and prudence, though excellent things; for they may all be blasted, without the blessing of Heaven; and, therefore, ask that blessing humbly, and be not uncharitable to those that at present seem to want it, but comfort and help them. Remember Job suffered, and was afterward prosperous. " And now, to conclude, Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other...
Página 105 - 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 226 - You call them Goods, but if you do not take Care, they will prove Evils to some of you. You expect they will be sold cheap, and perhaps they may for less than they cost; but if you have no Occasion for them, they must be dear to you. Remember what Poor Richard says, Buy what thou hast no Need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries.
Página 30 - 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.
Página 131 - 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 226 - By these, and other Extravagancies, the Genteel are Reduced to Poverty, and forced to borrow of those whom they formerly despised, but who through Industry and Frugality have maintained their Standing; in which case it appears plainly...
Página 31 - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.
Página 87 - Our debates possessed me so fully of the subject that I wrote and printed an anonymous pamphlet on it, entitled The Nature and Necessity of a Paper Currency.
Página 31 - Street wharf, near the boat I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water; and, being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther. Thus...