The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Containing the AutobiographyChilds & Peterson, 1859 - 612 páginas |
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... brought to a favorable Termination . - Lord Mansfield's Agency in the Affair . - Franklin's Sentiments in Regard to Can- ada . - Writes a Pamphlet to show that it ought to be retained at the Peace . Tour to the North of England ...
... brought to a favorable Termination . - Lord Mansfield's Agency in the Affair . - Franklin's Sentiments in Regard to Can- ada . - Writes a Pamphlet to show that it ought to be retained at the Peace . Tour to the North of England ...
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... brought up to that em- ployment ; a custom which he and my father followed with regard to their eldest sons . When I searched the registers at Ecton , I found an account of their marriages and burials from the year 1555 only , as the ...
... brought up to that em- ployment ; a custom which he and my father followed with regard to their eldest sons . When I searched the registers at Ecton , I found an account of their marriages and burials from the year 1555 only , as the ...
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... brought them to me . It would appear that my uncle must have left them here , when he went to America , which was about fifty years ago . I found several of his notes in the margins . His grandson , Samuel Franklin , is still living in ...
... brought them to me . It would appear that my uncle must have left them here , when he went to America , which was about fifty years ago . I found several of his notes in the margins . His grandson , Samuel Franklin , is still living in ...
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... brought them all to make our little wharf . The next morning , the workmen were sur- prised at missing the stones , which had formed our wharf . Inquiry was made after the authors of this transfer ; we were discovered , complained of ...
... brought them all to make our little wharf . The next morning , the workmen were sur- prised at missing the stones , which had formed our wharf . Inquiry was made after the authors of this transfer ; we were discovered , complained of ...
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... brought up in such a perfect inattention to those matters , as to be quite indifferent what kind of food was set before me . Indeed , I am so unobservant of it , that to this day I can scarce tell a few hours after dinner of what dishes ...
... brought up in such a perfect inattention to those matters , as to be quite indifferent what kind of food was set before me . Indeed , I am so unobservant of it , that to this day I can scarce tell a few hours after dinner of what dishes ...
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Página 9 - This was to teach me method in the arrangement of thoughts. 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 extremely ambitious.
Página 581 - 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 128 - 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 112 - 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 101 - 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 8 - 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.
Página 96 - Temperance, for example, was by some confined to eating and drinking, while by others it was extended to mean the moderating every other pleasure, appetite, inclination, or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition. 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...
Página xxxiii - My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me as the tithe of his sons to the service of the church.
Página 98 - I ruled each page with red ink, so as to have seven columns, one for each day of the week, marking each column with a letter for the day. I crossed these columns with thirteen red lines, marking the beginning of each line with the first letter of one of the virtues; on which line, and in its proper column, I might mark by a little black spot, every fault I found upon examination to have been committed respecting that virtue, upon that day I determined to give a week's strict attention to each of...
Página 2 - 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...