Life of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself, Том 1Lippincott, 1875 |
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... thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life , and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing . Hereby , too , I shall indulge the inclination so natural in old ...
... thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life , and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing . Hereby , too , I shall indulge the inclination so natural in old ...
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... thing of the kind , so that I was bro't up in such a perfect inattention to those matters as to be quite indifferent what kind of food was set before me , and so unobservant of it , that to this day if I am asked I can scarce tell a few ...
... thing of the kind , so that I was bro't up in such a perfect inattention to those matters as to be quite indifferent what kind of food was set before me , and so unobservant of it , that to this day if I am asked I can scarce tell a few ...
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... thing that may possibly be disputed , the words certainly , undoubtedly , or any others that give the air of positiveness to an opinion ; but rather say , I conceive or apprehend a thing to be so and so ; it appears to me , or I should ...
... thing that may possibly be disputed , the words certainly , undoubtedly , or any others that give the air of positiveness to an opinion ; but rather say , I conceive or apprehend a thing to be so and so ; it appears to me , or I should ...
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... thing of a scholar , was a mere compositor , knowing nothing of presswork . He had been one of the French prophets , and could act their enthusiastic agitations . At this time he did not profess any particular religion , but something ...
... thing of a scholar , was a mere compositor , knowing nothing of presswork . He had been one of the French prophets , and could act their enthusiastic agitations . At this time he did not profess any particular religion , but something ...
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... thing would be accommodated to my mind if I would return , to which he exhorted me very earnestly . I wrote an answer to his letter , thank'd him for his advice , but stated my reasons for quitting Boston fully and in such a light as to ...
... thing would be accommodated to my mind if I would return , to which he exhorted me very earnestly . I wrote an answer to his letter , thank'd him for his advice , but stated my reasons for quitting Boston fully and in such a light as to ...
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Страница 145 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Страница 151 - ORDER Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4 RESOLUTION Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
Страница 79 - Street wharf, near the boat I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water; and being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther.
Страница 64 - ... 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 occur to me. Then I compared my ' Spectator ' with the original, discovered some of my faults and corrected them.
Страница 177 - 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 103 - Water-American, as they called me, was stronger than themselves, who drank strong beer! We had an alehouse boy who attended always in the house to supply the workmen. My companion at the press drank every day a pint before breakfast, a pint at breakfast with his bread and cheese, a pint between breakfast and dinner, a pint at dinner, a pint in the afternoon about six o'clock, and another when he had done his day's work.
Страница 67 - While I was intent on improving my language, I met with an English Grammar (I think it was Greenwood's), at the end of which there were two little sketches of the arts of rhetoric and logic, the latter finishing with a specimen of a dispute in the Socratic method ; and soon after I procured Xenophon's Memorable Things of Socrates, wherein there are many instances of the same method.
Страница 71 - Philadelphia, with several people in her. They took me in, and, as there was no wind, we rowed all the way; and about midnight, not having yet seen the city, some of the company were confident we must have passed it, and would row no farther...
Страница 78 - I asked for a three-penny loaf, and was told they had none such. So not considering or knowing the difference of money, and the greater cheapness nor the names of his bread, I bade him give me three-penny worth of any sort.
Страница 157 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.