The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. (Complete)E. Maynard & Company, 1892 - 192 страници |
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... friend the Bishop of St. Asaph , Dr. Jonathan Shipley , America's constant friend , " as he called him . no objection to a repetition of the same life from AUTOBIOGRAPHY ...
... friend the Bishop of St. Asaph , Dr. Jonathan Shipley , America's constant friend , " as he called him . no objection to a repetition of the same life from AUTOBIOGRAPHY ...
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... friends and relations , of which the following , sent to me , is a specimen.1 He had formed a short - hand of his own , which he taught me , but , never practicing it , I have now forgot it . I was named after this uncle , there being a ...
... friends and relations , of which the following , sent to me , is a specimen.1 He had formed a short - hand of his own , which he taught me , but , never practicing it , I have now forgot it . I was named after this uncle , there being a ...
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... friend , It is Peter Folgier . " My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades . I was put to the ... friends , that I should certainly make a good scholar , en- couraged him in this purpose of his . My uncle Benjamin ...
... friend , It is Peter Folgier . " My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades . I was put to the ... friends , that I should certainly make a good scholar , en- couraged him in this purpose of his . My uncle Benjamin ...
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... friends in my hearing - altered his first intention , 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 profession generally ...
... friends in my hearing - altered his first intention , 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 profession generally ...
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... between contend- ing parties . At his table he liked to have , as often as he could , some sensible friend or neighbor to converse with , and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic 12 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN .
... between contend- ing parties . At his table he liked to have , as often as he could , some sensible friend or neighbor to converse with , and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic 12 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN .
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Страница 18 - It appears to me, or / should not think it, so or so, for such and such reasons; or, / 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 engaged in promoting.
Страница 19 - Men should be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot ; " further recommending to us "To speak, tho' sure, with seeming diffidence.
Страница 15 - I thought the writing excellent, and wished if possible to imitate it. With this view I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete 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...
Страница 82 - I determined to give a week's strict attention to each of the virtues successively. Thus, in the first week, my great guard was to avoid every the least offence against Temperance, leaving the other virtues to their ordinary chance, only marking every evening the faults of the day. Thus, if in the first week I could keep my first line, marked T, clear of spots, I...
Страница 83 - I made in virtue, by clearing successively my lines of their spots, till in the end, by a number of courses, I should be happy in viewing a clean book, after a thirteen weeks
Страница 104 - The request was fortunately made to perhaps the only man in the company who had the firmness not to be affected by the preacher. His answer was, "At any other time, friend Hopkinson, I would lend to thee freely ; but not now, for thee seems to be out of thy right senses.
Страница 4 - I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
Страница 25 - ... the shore, got into a creek, landed near an old fence, with the rails of which we made a fire, the night being cold, in October, and there we remained till daylight. Then one of the company knew the place to be Cooper's Creek, a little above Philadelphia, which we saw as soon as we got out of the creek, and arrived there about eight or nine o'clock on the Sunday morning, and landed at the Market Street wharf.
Страница 18 - I took a delight in it, practised it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not foresee, entangling them in difficulties out of which they could not extricate themselves, and so obtaining victories that neither myself nor my cause always deserved.
Страница 76 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...