Benjamin Franklin: His Autobiography; with a Narrative of His Public Life and ServicesHarper, 1856 - 549 страници |
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... never heard or saw the introductory words " With- out vanity I may say , " & c . , but some vain thing immediately followed . Most people dislike vanity in others , whatever share they have of it themselves ; but I give it fair quarter ...
... never heard or saw the introductory words " With- out vanity I may say , " & c . , but some vain thing immediately followed . Most people dislike vanity in others , whatever share they have of it themselves ; but I give it fair quarter ...
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... never employed in the latter , the numerous family he had to educate and the straitness of his circumstances keeping him close to his trade : but I remember well his being frequently visited by lead- ing men , who consulted him for his ...
... never employed in the latter , the numerous family he had to educate and the straitness of his circumstances keeping him close to his trade : but I remember well his being frequently visited by lead- ing men , who consulted him for his ...
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... never knew either my father or mother to have any sick- ness but that of which they died , he at 89 , and she at 85 years of age . They lie buried together at Boston , where I some years since placed a marble over their grave , with ...
... never knew either my father or mother to have any sick- ness but that of which they died , he at 89 , and she at 85 years of age . They lie buried together at Boston , where I some years since placed a marble over their grave , with ...
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... never before seen any of them . I bought it , read it over and over , and was much de- lighted with it . I thought the writing excellent , and wished , if possible , to imitate it . With that view I took some of the papers , and ...
... never before seen any of them . I bought it , read it over and over , and was much de- lighted with it . I thought the writing excellent , and wished , if possible , to imitate it . With that view I took some of the papers , and ...
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... never proceeded far in that science . I read about this time Locke on the Human Understanding , and the Art of Thinking , by Messrs . du Port Royal . While I was inten on improving my language , I met with an English grammar ( I think ...
... never proceeded far in that science . I read about this time Locke on the Human Understanding , and the Art of Thinking , by Messrs . du Port Royal . While I was inten on improving my language , I met with an English grammar ( I think ...
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acquainted affairs afterward agent America answer appeared appointed Assembly attended Benjamin Franklin Boston Britain British captain character colonies colonists continued conversation crown defense desired disputes doctor endeavored enemies England father favor Franklin friends gave give governor hands honor horses House hundred Indians inhabitants interest Joseph Galloway Keimer letter lodged London Lord Chatham Lord Dartmouth Lord Hillsborough Lord Kames Lord Loudoun measures ment ministry never obtained occasion officers opinion paid pamphlet paper Parliament party Paxton Boys Penn Pennsylvania persons petition Philadelphia pounds sterling present printed printer printing-house procure proposed proprietary province Quakers received repeal respect sailed sent shillings ship soon Stamp Act street thing Thomas Penn Thomas Whately thought tion told took troops virtue wagons William Penn writing wrote young
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Страница 23 - 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.
Страница 22 - ... the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected them.
Страница 136 - 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!
Страница 136 - 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.
Страница 26 - I conceive or apprehend a thing to be so and so ; it appears to me, or I should think it so or so, for such and such reasons ; or I imagine it to be so; or it is so, if I am not mistaken. This habit, I believe, has been of great advantage to me when I have had occasion to inculcate my opinions, and persuade men into measures that I have been from time to time...
Страница 167 - 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 copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver ; and he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket wholly into the collector's dish, — gold and all.
Страница 128 - ... luxury will enter families, and make a progress, in spite of principle; being called one morning to breakfast, I found it in a china bowl, with a spoon of silver! They had been bought for me without my knowledge by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum of...
Страница 43 - 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...
Страница 97 - Deism fell into my hands; they were said to be the substance of sermons preached at Boyle's Lectures. It happened that they wrought an effect on me quite contrary to what was intended by them; for the arguments of the Deists, which were quoted to be refuted, appeared to me much stronger than the refutations; in short, I soon became a thorough Deist.
Страница 549 - 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.