Memoirs of the Life & Writings of Benjamin FranklinDent, 1927 - 314 страници |
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... sensible man , a pretty good writer , and a good governor for the people , tho ' not for his constituents , the proprietaries , whose instructions he sometimes disregarded . Several of our best laws were of 50 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
... sensible man , a pretty good writer , and a good governor for the people , tho ' not for his constituents , the proprietaries , whose instructions he sometimes disregarded . Several of our best laws were of 50 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
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... instructions ; so I return'd , and we went on more smoothly than for some time before . The New Jersey jobb was obtain'd , I contriv'd a copperplate press for it , the first that had been seen in the country ; I cut several ornaments ...
... instructions ; so I return'd , and we went on more smoothly than for some time before . The New Jersey jobb was obtain'd , I contriv'd a copperplate press for it , the first that had been seen in the country ; I cut several ornaments ...
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... instructions to me when a boy , frequently repeated a proverb of Solomon , " Seest thou a man diligent in his calling , he shall stand before kings , he shall not stand before mean men , " I from thence considered industry as a means of ...
... instructions to me when a boy , frequently repeated a proverb of Solomon , " Seest thou a man diligent in his calling , he shall stand before kings , he shall not stand before mean men , " I from thence considered industry as a means of ...
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... instruction among the common people , who bought scarcely any other books ; I therefore filled all the little spaces that occurr'd between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences , chiefly such as inculcated ...
... instruction among the common people , who bought scarcely any other books ; I therefore filled all the little spaces that occurr'd between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences , chiefly such as inculcated ...
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... instruction , and in that view frequently reprinted in it extracts from the Spectator , and other moral writers ; and sometimes publish'd little pieces of my own , which had been first compos'd for reading in our Junto . Of these are a ...
... instruction , and in that view frequently reprinted in it extracts from the Spectator , and other moral writers ; and sometimes publish'd little pieces of my own , which had been first compos'd for reading in our Junto . Of these are a ...
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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...