The Life of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Written by Himself ; Together with a Number of His Humorous, Moral, and Literary Essays, Chiefly in the Manner of the SpectatorStarr & Niles, 1823 - 300 страници |
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... gave in your let- ter of the ' honor shown to his memory at Philadelphia , and by Congress ; and yesterday I received a high ad- ditional pleasure , by being informed that the National Assembly of France had determined to go in mourning ...
... gave in your let- ter of the ' honor shown to his memory at Philadelphia , and by Congress ; and yesterday I received a high ad- ditional pleasure , by being informed that the National Assembly of France had determined to go in mourning ...
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... gave me some notes , from which I have derived many particulars respecting our ancestors . From these I learn , that they had lived in the same village ( Eaton in Northamptonshire ) upon a freehold of about thirty acres , for the space ...
... gave me some notes , from which I have derived many particulars respecting our ancestors . From these I learn , that they had lived in the same village ( Eaton in Northamptonshire ) upon a freehold of about thirty acres , for the space ...
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... gave me frequent opportunities of venturing myself both upon and within it ; and I soon acquired the art of swimming , and of managing a boat . When embarked with other children , the helm was commonly deput- ed to me , particularly on ...
... gave me frequent opportunities of venturing myself both upon and within it ; and I soon acquired the art of swimming , and of managing a boat . When embarked with other children , the helm was commonly deput- ed to me , particularly on ...
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... gave me I was able to save half . This was a new fund for the purchase of books ; and other advan- tages resulted to me from the plan . When my bro- ther and his workmen left the printing - house to go to dinner , I remained behind ...
... gave me I was able to save half . This was a new fund for the purchase of books ; and other advan- tages resulted to me from the plan . When my bro- ther and his workmen left the printing - house to go to dinner , I remained behind ...
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... gave it reputation and increased its sale . These gentlemen came frequently to our house . I heard the conversation that passed , and the accounts they gave of the favorable reception of their writings with the public . I was tempted to ...
... gave it reputation and increased its sale . These gentlemen came frequently to our house . I heard the conversation that passed , and the accounts they gave of the favorable reception of their writings with the public . I was tempted to ...
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Страница 260 - I doubt, too, whether any other Convention we can obtain may be able to make a better Constitution. For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their pas,sions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views.
Страница 157 - This advice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me; and I often think of it, when I see pride mortified, and misfortunes brought upon people by their carrying their heads too high.
Страница 232 - We are however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, tho* -we decline accepting it : and to show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take great care of their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them.
Страница 261 - Thus I consent, sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best.
Страница 232 - But you who are wise, must know, that different nations have different conceptions of things ; and you will therefore not take it amiss, if our ideas of this kind of education happen not to be the same with yours.
Страница 233 - ... he intended to say or has any thing to add, he may rise again and deliver it. To interrupt another, even in common conversation, is reckoned highly indecent.
Страница 177 - The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but, if he sees you at a billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day; demands it, before he can receive it, in a lump.
Страница 159 - I might have bought with the rest of the money; and laughed at me so much for my folly, that I cried with vexation; and the reflection gave me more chagrin than the whistle gave me pleasure.
Страница 177 - It shows, besides, that you are mindful of what you owe; it makes you appear a careful as well as an honest man, and that still increases your credit. Beware of thinking all your own that you possess, and of living accordingly.
Страница 159 - When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly employing himself in political bustles, neglecting his own affairs, and ruining them by that neglect, He pays, indeed, said I, too much for his whistle.