The British Prose Writers...: Dr. B. Franklin's essaysJ. Sharpe, 1821 |
Между кориците на книгата
Резултати 1 - 5 от 48.
Страница 3
... trade . With more concern have I conti- nually observed the growing vices and follies of my country folk : and though reformation is properly the concern of every man , that is , every one ought to mend one ; yet it is too true in this ...
... trade . With more concern have I conti- nually observed the growing vices and follies of my country folk : and though reformation is properly the concern of every man , that is , every one ought to mend one ; yet it is too true in this ...
Страница 34
... trades . Many are the idle stories told of the private suc- cess of some people , by which others are encouraged to proceed ; and the astrologers , with whom the country swarms at this time , are either in the belief of these things ...
... trades . Many are the idle stories told of the private suc- cess of some people , by which others are encouraged to proceed ; and the astrologers , with whom the country swarms at this time , are either in the belief of these things ...
Страница 58
... , & c , is called geometry . As to the usefulness of arithmetic , it is well known that no business , commerce , trade , or em- ployment whatsoever , even from the merchant to the shopkeeper 58 FRANKLIN'S ESSAYS AND LETTERS ,
... , & c , is called geometry . As to the usefulness of arithmetic , it is well known that no business , commerce , trade , or em- ployment whatsoever , even from the merchant to the shopkeeper 58 FRANKLIN'S ESSAYS AND LETTERS ,
Страница 65
... trade and navigation ; nor indeed were they much better in other matters of useful knowledge . It was a green - headed time ; every useful improvement was hid from them ; they had neither looked into heaven nor earth , into sea nor land ...
... trade and navigation ; nor indeed were they much better in other matters of useful knowledge . It was a green - headed time ; every useful improvement was hid from them ; they had neither looked into heaven nor earth , into sea nor land ...
Страница 66
... trade without books , and correspondence without posts : their merchants kept no accounts , their shopkeepers no cash - books : they had surgery without anatomy , and physicians without the materia medica : they gave emetics without ...
... trade without books , and correspondence without posts : their merchants kept no accounts , their shopkeepers no cash - books : they had surgery without anatomy , and physicians without the materia medica : they gave emetics without ...
Често срещани думи и фрази
act of parliament advantage America better Britain Busy-Body clothes colonies continue dæmons dear debts earth employed encourage endeavour England equal Europe expense farther favour February 11 fluid Franklin friends frugality give Glaucon Gout happiness honour Horatio hundred increase industry inhabitants judges kind labour land less liberty live luxury Madeira wine manner manufactures marriages means ment merchants mind Mussulmen nation natural necessary neighbours never obliged observed occasion opinion parliament Pennsylvania Gazette perhaps persons Phil Philocles pleasure poor Richard says pounds present produce profit Province of Pennsylvania provinces Prussia quantity racters raised reason rich ruin self-denial shillings ships slaves Socrates Spain specific gravity stamp act subjects subsistence suffered supposed taxes thee thereby things thou thought tion trade virtue whole wise
Популярни откъси
Страница 75 - How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that The sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that There will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.
Страница 83 - ... the blessing of Heaven ; and therefore ask that blessing humbly, and be not uncharitable to those that at present seem to want it, but comfort and help them. Remember Job suffered, and was afterwards prosperous. "And now, to conclude, 'Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other...
Страница 87 - 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 75 - Industry need not wish, as Poor Richard says, and he that lives upon Hope will die fasting. There are no Gains without Pains; then Help Hands, for I have no Lands, or if I have, they are smartly taxed.
Страница 159 - I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth— that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings, that "except the Lord build the house they labor in vain that build it.
Страница 77 - Methinks I hear some of you say, 'Must a man afford himself no leisure?' I will tell thee, my friend, what Poor Richard says, Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure; and since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
Страница 159 - I firmly believe this ; and I also believe that without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel. We shall be divided by our little, partial, local interests, our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by-word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and conquest.
Страница 136 - the opinion of learned philosophers of our race, who lived and flourished long before my time, that this vast world, the Moulin Joly, could not itself subsist more than eighteen hours ; and I think there was some foundation for that opinion, since, by the apparent motion of the great luminary that gives life to all nature, and which in my time has evidently declined considerably...
Страница 99 - Good," which, I think, was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor that several leaves of it were torn out, but the remainder gave me such a turn of thinking as to have an influence on my conduct through life; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good than on any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to that book.
Страница 161 - 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 passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views.