The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and a Sketch of Franklin's Life from the Point where the Autobiography Ends. Drawn Chiefly from His Letters. With Notes and a Chronological Historical TableHoughton, Mifflin, 1896 - 253 páginas |
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... seemed to call for explanation or illustration , but no words have been explained which could be understood by reference to a good dictionary . At the close of the autobiography will be found a sketch of Franklin's life , from the point ...
... seemed to call for explanation or illustration , but no words have been explained which could be understood by reference to a good dictionary . At the close of the autobiography will be found a sketch of Franklin's life , from the point ...
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... seemed to me , afford time to prac- tice it . When about sixteen years of age I happened to meet with a book , written by one Tryon , recommend- ing a vegetable diet . I determined to go into it . My brother , being yet unmarried , did ...
... seemed to me , afford time to prac- tice it . When about sixteen years of age I happened to meet with a book , written by one Tryon , recommend- ing a vegetable diet . I determined to go into it . My brother , being yet unmarried , did ...
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... dinner ; and while I was eating it , sev- eral sly questions were asked me , as it seemed to be 1 This stood on the southwest corner of Second and Market streets . suspected from my youth and appearance that I might be 36 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF.
... dinner ; and while I was eating it , sev- eral sly questions were asked me , as it seemed to be 1 This stood on the southwest corner of Second and Market streets . suspected from my youth and appearance that I might be 36 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF.
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... seemed surprised when he was told my age . He said I appeared a young man of promising parts , and therefore should be encouraged ; the printers at Philadelphia were wretched ones ; and , if I would set up there , he made no doubt I ...
... seemed surprised when he was told my age . He said I appeared a young man of promising parts , and therefore should be encouraged ; the printers at Philadelphia were wretched ones ; and , if I would set up there , he made no doubt I ...
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... seemed at first not to think so ill of them as she did , she mentioned some things she had observed and heard that had escaped my notice , but now convinced me she was right . I thanked her for her kind advice , and promised to follow ...
... seemed at first not to think so ill of them as she did , she mentioned some things she had observed and heard that had escaped my notice , but now convinced me she was right . I thanked her for her kind advice , and promised to follow ...
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Página 101 - Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2 SILENCE Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3 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 96 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men...
Página 21 - 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 101 - Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; ie, waste nothing. 6. INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. 7. SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly. 8. JUSTICE. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
Página 20 - Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected them. But I found I wanted a stock of words, or a readiness in recollecting and using them...
Página 240 - 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 104 - 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 34 - 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 102 - My intention being to acquire the habitude of all these virtues, I judged it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at once but to fix it on one of them at a time, and when I should be master of that, then to proceed to another, and so on till I should have gone thro
Página 78 - The rules that I drew up required that every member in his turn should produce one or more queries on any point of morals, politics, or natural philosophy, to be discussed by the company ; and once in three months produce and read an essay of his own writing, on any subject he pleased.