Two-hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Benjamin Franklin: Celebration by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the City of Boston, Symphony Hall, January Seventeenth, 1906 ...The University Press, 1906 - 113 страници |
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... thought were directed , and perhaps in no way was this more clearly shown than in the number of institutions which he helped to bring into existence for the service of humanity . Some of these institu- tions , like the University of ...
... thought were directed , and perhaps in no way was this more clearly shown than in the number of institutions which he helped to bring into existence for the service of humanity . Some of these institu- tions , like the University of ...
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... thought his wishes would best be met by dividing the actual capital accumulated July 1 , 1893 , into two parts , bearing to each other some such ratio as that which Franklin had indicated . Accordingly in December of 1893 , the managers ...
... thought his wishes would best be met by dividing the actual capital accumulated July 1 , 1893 , into two parts , bearing to each other some such ratio as that which Franklin had indicated . Accordingly in December of 1893 , the managers ...
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... thought of Franklin , and we have no occasion now , in celebrating the two hundredth anniversary of his birth to allow any of these distractions to influence us , for we might take from the encomiums all that belongs to rhetoric and to ...
... thought of Franklin , and we have no occasion now , in celebrating the two hundredth anniversary of his birth to allow any of these distractions to influence us , for we might take from the encomiums all that belongs to rhetoric and to ...
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... , navigation , agriculture , ethnology , paleontology , medicine , hygiene , and pedagogy . What a range of thought and investi- gation these subjects , which attracted the attention of Franklin The Oration : Our Debt to Franklin 55.
... , navigation , agriculture , ethnology , paleontology , medicine , hygiene , and pedagogy . What a range of thought and investi- gation these subjects , which attracted the attention of Franklin The Oration : Our Debt to Franklin 55.
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... thought , and it is not too much to say that Cobden enriched his mind from the works of Franklin . When we consider the papers of Dr. Franklin upon economic subjects we conclude that he was among the very first economists of his age ...
... thought , and it is not too much to say that Cobden enriched his mind from the works of Franklin . When we consider the papers of Dr. Franklin upon economic subjects we conclude that he was among the very first economists of his age ...
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Страница 102 - In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality — that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
Страница 68 - MR. STRAHAN, You are a member of parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. — You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our people. — Look upon your hands! — They are stained with the blood of your relations ! — You and I were long friends: — You are now my enemy, — and I am • Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
Страница 111 - In this situation of this Assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights, to illuminate our understandings...
Страница 92 - I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the writing excellent and wished if possible to imitate it.
Страница 113 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Страница 92 - I met a boy with bread. I had made many a meal on bread, and, inquiring where he got it, I went immediately to the baker's he directed me to, in...
Страница 91 - Brownell, very successful in his profession generally, and that by mild, encouraging methods. Under him I acquired fair writing pretty soon, but I failed in the arithmetic, and made no progress in it. At ten years old...
Страница 92 - I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there. I was in my working dress, my best clothes being to come round by sea.
Страница 111 - MR. PRESIDENT, The small progress we have made, after four or five weeks' close attendance and continual reasonings with each other, our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many Noes as Ayes, is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since VOL.
Страница 95 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...