The Select Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including His AutobiographyPhillips, Sampson, 1853 - 488 páginas |
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... causing the mercury to sink . Being at Cambridge , Franklin mentioned this to Dr. Hadley , professor of chemistry , and several interesting experiments were tried , of which an account is given by Franklin , in a letter to Dr. Lining ...
... causing the mercury to sink . Being at Cambridge , Franklin mentioned this to Dr. Hadley , professor of chemistry , and several interesting experiments were tried , of which an account is given by Franklin , in a letter to Dr. Lining ...
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... caused great dissatisfaction . The chancellor of the Exchequer , Charles Townshend , in January , 1767 , brought forward a new scheme for raising a revenue in America , including not only the maintenance of a standing army , but the ...
... caused great dissatisfaction . The chancellor of the Exchequer , Charles Townshend , in January , 1767 , brought forward a new scheme for raising a revenue in America , including not only the maintenance of a standing army , but the ...
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... Causes of the American Discontents . Two other pieces , one on Smuggling , and the other on the Laboring Poor , were published about this time ; the former in the Chronicle , and the latter in the Gentleman's Magazine . On the change of ...
... Causes of the American Discontents . Two other pieces , one on Smuggling , and the other on the Laboring Poor , were published about this time ; the former in the Chronicle , and the latter in the Gentleman's Magazine . On the change of ...
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... cause was his agency in communicating to the public certain original letters , written in Massachusetts , by Governor Hutchinson , Lieutenant - governor Oliver , and others , and addressed to Mr. Thomas Whately , a member of Parliament ...
... cause was his agency in communicating to the public certain original letters , written in Massachusetts , by Governor Hutchinson , Lieutenant - governor Oliver , and others , and addressed to Mr. Thomas Whately , a member of Parliament ...
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... cause the letters to be printed , nor direct the doing it ; that he did not erase . any address that might have been on the letters ; nor did he know that any other person had made such erasure ; that he did , as agent to the Province ...
... cause the letters to be printed , nor direct the doing it ; that he did not erase . any address that might have been on the letters ; nor did he know that any other person had made such erasure ; that he did , as agent to the Province ...
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The Select Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including His Autobiography Benjamin Franklin Vista completa - 1857 |
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Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance affairs afterwards agreeable America appeared appointed Art of Virtue Assembly attended body Boston Britain called chimney cold Colonies conduct conductors Congress continued conversation David Hume dear desire electricity employed endeavor England father favor fire fluid France Franklin French friends gave give Gout governor hand happy heat Helvetius honor hundred John Adams Keimer kind letter live London Lord Camden Lord Chatham Lord Hillsborough Lord Loudoun Lord Stanhope lordship means ment nature never observed obtained occasion opinion paper Parliament Passy Pennsylvania perhaps person Philadelphia pleased pleasure Poor Richard's Almanac pounds pounds sterling present printed printer printing-house procure proposed Proprietary province Quakers reason received respect says seems sent shillings soon suppose things thought tion told took virtue William Temple Franklin wish writing wrote young
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Página 101 - I have lived, sir, a long time; and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men.
Página 131 - I took a delight in it, practiced 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 117 - As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of morals and his religion as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is like to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting changes, and I have with most of the present dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity...
Página 187 - 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 feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Página 174 - I had been of some service, thought fit to reward me, by employing me in printing the money ; a very profitable job, and a great help to me. This was another advantage gained by my being able to write.
Página 111 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Página 138 - 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 157 - I endeavored to convince him that the bodily strength afforded by beer could only be in proportion to the grain or flour of the barley dissolved in the water of which it was made ; that there was more flour in a pennyworth of bread ; and therefore, if he would eat that with a pint of water, it would give him more strength than a quart of beer.
Página 178 - And now I set on foot my first project of a public nature, that for a subscription library. I drew up the proposals, got them put into form by our great scrivener, Brockden, and, by the help of my friends in the Junto, procured fifty subscribers of forty shillings each to begin with, and ten shillings a year for fifty years, the term our company was to continue. We afterwards...
Página 184 - I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, with fewer ideas annexed to each, than a few names with more ideas; and I included under thirteen names of virtues all that at that time occurred to me as necessary or desirable, and annexed to each a short precept, which fully expressed the extent I gave to its meaning.