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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... less adapted for general pe- rusal . He subjoins a letter from the late celebrated and amiable Dr. Price , to a gentleman in Philadelphia , upon the subject of Dr. Franklin's memoirs of his own life . DEAR SIR , Hackney , June 19 , 1790 ...
... less adapted for general pe- rusal . He subjoins a letter from the late celebrated and amiable Dr. Price , to a gentleman in Philadelphia , upon the subject of Dr. Franklin's memoirs of his own life . DEAR SIR , Hackney , June 19 , 1790 ...
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... less propriety . It is this : For want of modesty is want of sense . If you ask why I say with less propriety , I must give you the two lines together : Immodest words admit of no defence , For want of decency is want of sense . Now ...
... less propriety . It is this : For want of modesty is want of sense . If you ask why I say with less propriety , I must give you the two lines together : Immodest words admit of no defence , For want of decency is want of sense . Now ...
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... less than twenty - five . But he carried his project into execution , and I was employed in distributing the copies to his customers , after having assisted in com- posing and working them off . Among his friends he had a number of ...
... less than twenty - five . But he carried his project into execution , and I was employed in distributing the copies to his customers , after having assisted in com- posing and working them off . Among his friends he had a number of ...
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... less to blame than he had imagined . Sir William Keith , governor of the province was at Newcastle at the time . Captain Holmes , being by chance in his company when he received my letter , took occasion to speak of me , and shewed it ...
... less to blame than he had imagined . Sir William Keith , governor of the province was at Newcastle at the time . Captain Holmes , being by chance in his company when he received my letter , took occasion to speak of me , and shewed it ...
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... less afflicted at this , as he was unable to pay me : and as , by losing his friend- ship , I was relieved at the same time from a very heavy burthen . I now began to think of laying by some money.- The printing - house of Watts near ...
... less afflicted at this , as he was unable to pay me : and as , by losing his friend- ship , I was relieved at the same time from a very heavy burthen . I now began to think of laying by some money.- The printing - house of Watts near ...
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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.