The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinH. Altemus, 1895 - 287 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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... honours , at the age of eighty - four , on the 17th of April , 1790 . After his death a general mourning of two months was ordered by Congress as a tribute to the memory of one who had done so much by his wisdom and his activity in ...
... honours , at the age of eighty - four , on the 17th of April , 1790 . After his death a general mourning of two months was ordered by Congress as a tribute to the memory of one who had done so much by his wisdom and his activity in ...
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... honour ; more particularly as he con- versed with me in a most affable , familiar , and friendly manner . About the end of April , 1724 , a little vessel offered for Boston . I took leave of Keimer , as going to see my friends . The ...
... honour ; more particularly as he con- versed with me in a most affable , familiar , and friendly manner . About the end of April , 1724 , a little vessel offered for Boston . I took leave of Keimer , as going to see my friends . The ...
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... honour to take notice of me , and , for a poor boy like me , it was very pleasing . We proceeded to Philadelphia . I received in the way Vernon's money , without which we could hardly have finished our journey . Collins wished to be em ...
... honour to take notice of me , and , for a poor boy like me , it was very pleasing . We proceeded to Philadelphia . I received in the way Vernon's money , without which we could hardly have finished our journey . Collins wished to be em ...
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... honour to assume mine ; for I soon after had a letter from him , acquainting me that he was settled in a small village ( in Berkshire , I think it was , where he taught reading and writing to ten or a dozen boys , at sixpence each per ...
... honour to assume mine ; for I soon after had a letter from him , acquainting me that he was settled in a small village ( in Berkshire , I think it was , where he taught reading and writing to ten or a dozen boys , at sixpence each per ...
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... vigorously into the measures of his predecessor . But our last advices by the post acquaint us , that his Honour , the Lieutenant - governor , the dispute then going on between Governor Burnet and the 122 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF.
... vigorously into the measures of his predecessor . But our last advices by the post acquaint us , that his Honour , the Lieutenant - governor , the dispute then going on between Governor Burnet and the 122 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF.
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Términos y frases comunes
accordingly acquaintance advantage affairs afterwards appeared arrived ART OF VIRTUE Assembly attend began Benjamin Franklin Boston bred brother brought called captain conduct continued debt defence desired dispute employed endeavour England England Courant father favour friends gave give Governor hand honour horses Hugh Meredith hundred pounds inhabitants instructions Keimer length letters Little Britain lived lodged London Lord Loudoun means Meredith ness never newspaper obtained occasion officers opinion paid pamphlet paper partnership Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Gazette perhaps Philadelphia piece poor Poor Richard's Almanac pounds currency pounds sterling preached printed printer printing-house procure proposed Proprietaries province Quakers Ralph received sailed sect seems sent sermons shillings sometimes soon street subscription things thought thousand pounds tion told took uncle Benjamin virtue wagons Whitefield writing wrote York young
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Página 149 - ORDER Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4 RESOLUTION Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
Página 41 - I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the writing excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it.
Página 155 - 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 60 - 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 refreshed, I walked again up the street, which by this time had many clean-dressed people in it, who were all walking the same way.
Página 46 - Tis not enough your counsel still be true ; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do ; Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Página 154 - 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.
Página 33 - At his table he liked to have, as often as he could, some sensible friend or neighbour to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse, which might tend to improve the minds of his children. By this means he turned our attention to what was good, just, and prudent, in the conduct of life; and little or no notice was ever taken of what related to the victuals on the table; whether it was well or ill dressed, in or out of season, of good or bad flavor, preferable...
Página 159 - ... 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 42 - I had gone on making verses ; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. Therefore, I took some of the tales and turned them into verse ; and after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again.
Página 154 - I could go thro' a course complete in thirteen weeks, and four courses in a year. And like him who, having a garden to weed, does not attempt to eradicate all the bad herbs at once, which would exceed his reach and his strength, but works on one of the beds at a time, and having...