Memoirs of the Life & Writings of Benjamin FranklinDent, 1927 - 314 страници |
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... father and his country , and had behaved with so much provocation and defiance that his career , until he finally found his way to England , was , to say the least , not a comfortable one . There was a good deal of imprisonment ; a good ...
... father and his country , and had behaved with so much provocation and defiance that his career , until he finally found his way to England , was , to say the least , not a comfortable one . There was a good deal of imprisonment ; a good ...
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... father was alive , an exiled loyalist , living in England , subsisting on a pension from the King . Here was an influence ; here also considerations of prudence , even of seemliness . And as a fact it was immediately after his father's ...
... father was alive , an exiled loyalist , living in England , subsisting on a pension from the King . Here was an influence ; here also considerations of prudence , even of seemliness . And as a fact it was immediately after his father's ...
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... Father . The final Breach . My Inducements to quit Boston . Manner of coming to a Resolution . My leaving him and going to New York ( return to eating flesh ) ; thence to Penn- sylvania . The journey , and its events on the Bay , at ...
... Father . The final Breach . My Inducements to quit Boston . Manner of coming to a Resolution . My leaving him and going to New York ( return to eating flesh ) ; thence to Penn- sylvania . The journey , and its events on the Bay , at ...
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... Father's Remark and Advice upon Diligence . Carolina Partnership . Learn French and German . Journey to Boston after ten years . Affection of my Brother . His Death , and leaving me his Son . Art of Virtue . Occasion . City Watch ...
... Father's Remark and Advice upon Diligence . Carolina Partnership . Learn French and German . Journey to Boston after ten years . Affection of my Brother . His Death , and leaving me his Son . Art of Virtue . Occasion . City Watch ...
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... Father's Proverb . Stamp Act . My opposition to it . Recommendation of J. Hughes . Amendment of it . Examination in Parliament . Repu- Sick- The con- Costs me tation it gave me . Caressed by Ministry . Charles Townsend's Act ...
... Father's Proverb . Stamp Act . My opposition to it . Recommendation of J. Hughes . Amendment of it . Examination in Parliament . Repu- Sick- The con- Costs me tation it gave me . Caressed by Ministry . Charles Townsend's Act ...
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Страница 97 - I was now and then prevail'd on to do so, once for five Sundays successively. Had he been in my opinion a good preacher, perhaps I might have continued, notwithstanding the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study ; but his discourses were chiefly either polemic arguments, or explications of the peculiar doctrines of our sect, and were all to me very dry, uninteresting, and unedifying, since not a single moral principle was inculcated or enforc'd, their aim seeming to be rather...
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Страница 103 - 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 95 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Страница 114 - I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, makes the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.
Страница 104 - 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...
Страница 22 - For, if you would inform, a positive and dogmatical manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly...
Страница 25 - ... secrets. During my brother's confinement, which I resented a good deal, notwithstanding our private differences, I had the management of the paper; and I made bold to give our rulers some rubs in it, which my brother took very kindly, while others began to consider me in an unfavorable light, as a young genius that had a turn for libelling and satyr.
Страница 30 - Second-street, and ask'd for bisket, intending such as we had in Boston; but they, it seems, were not made in Philadelphia. Then I asked for a three-penny loaf, and was told they had none such. So not considering or knowing the difference of money, and the greater cheapness nor the names of his bread, I bade him give me three-penny worth of any sort. He gave me, accordingly, three great puffy rolls. I was...
Страница 17 - I now took a fancy to poetry, and made some little pieces ; my brother, thinking it might turn to account, encouraged me, and put me on composing occasional ballads. One was called The Lighthouse Tragedy...