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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... under it as before . I had this anecdote from my uncle Benjamin . The whole family preserved its attachment to the Church of England till towards the close of the reign of Charles II . when certain ministers , who had been 14 LIFE OF.
... under it as before . I had this anecdote from my uncle Benjamin . The whole family preserved its attachment to the Church of England till towards the close of the reign of Charles II . when certain ministers , who had been 14 LIFE OF.
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... whole life I have ever preserved . My apprenticeship became insupportable to me , and I continally sighed for an opportunity of shortening it , which at length , unexpectedly offered . An article inserted in our paper upon some ...
... whole life I have ever preserved . My apprenticeship became insupportable to me , and I continally sighed for an opportunity of shortening it , which at length , unexpectedly offered . An article inserted in our paper upon some ...
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... whole night ; but the wind abating the next day , we succeeded in reaching Amboy before it was dark , after having ... whole day , so that I was wet to the skin . Finding myself fatigued about noon , I stopped at a paltry inn , where I ...
... whole night ; but the wind abating the next day , we succeeded in reaching Amboy before it was dark , after having ... whole day , so that I was wet to the skin . Finding myself fatigued about noon , I stopped at a paltry inn , where I ...
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... whole expense of our living did not exceed for each , eighteen pence a week . I have since that period observed several Lents with the greatest strictness , and have suddenly returned again to my ordinary diet , without experiencing the ...
... whole expense of our living did not exceed for each , eighteen pence a week . I have since that period observed several Lents with the greatest strictness , and have suddenly returned again to my ordinary diet , without experiencing the ...
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... whole cabin , so that Ralph and I were obliged to take up our lodging with the crew . Being unknown to every body in the ship , we were looked upon as the common order of people but Mr. Hamilton and his son ( it was James , who was ...
... whole cabin , so that Ralph and I were obliged to take up our lodging with the crew . Being unknown to every body in the ship , we were looked upon as the common order of people but Mr. Hamilton and his son ( it was James , who was ...
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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.