Memoirs of the Life & Writings of Benjamin FranklinDent, 1927 - 314 страници |
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... took the opportunity of saying a word to those wise men on a matter that had been a good deal in his mind for some time . He wanted to know what had become of the MS . of Franklin's Auto- biography , and whether one could not find it if ...
... took the opportunity of saying a word to those wise men on a matter that had been a good deal in his mind for some time . He wanted to know what had become of the MS . of Franklin's Auto- biography , and whether one could not find it if ...
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... took steps to publish his grandfather's Works , he wished to have a fair copy of the Memoirs " for the printers . " And being one of these editors — so exceptional , and extraordinary , and fortunate ! -who do not fatigue themselves ...
... took steps to publish his grandfather's Works , he wished to have a fair copy of the Memoirs " for the printers . " And being one of these editors — so exceptional , and extraordinary , and fortunate ! -who do not fatigue themselves ...
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... took surnames all over the kingdom ) , on a freehold of about thirty acres , aided by the smith's business , which had con- tinued in the family till his time , the eldest son being always bred to that business ; a custom which he and ...
... took surnames all over the kingdom ) , on a freehold of about thirty acres , aided by the smith's business , which had con- tinued in the family till his time , the eldest son being always bred to that business ; a custom which he and ...
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... there being a parti- cular affection between him and my father . He was very pious , a great attender of sermons of the best preachers , which he took down in his short - hand , and had with him many volumes of them . He 8 BENJAMIN ...
... there being a parti- cular affection between him and my father . He was very pious , a great attender of sermons of the best preachers , which he took down in his short - hand , and had with him many volumes of them . He 8 BENJAMIN ...
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... took me from the grammar - school , and sent me to a school for writing and arithmetic , kept by a then famous man , Mr George Brownell , very successful in his pro- fession generally , and that by mild , encouraging methods . Under him ...
... took me from the grammar - school , and sent me to a school for writing and arithmetic , kept by a then famous man , Mr George Brownell , very successful in his pro- fession generally , and that by mild , encouraging methods . Under him ...
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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...