Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1868 - 409 страници Charming self-portrait covers boyhood, work as a printer, political career, scientific experiments, much more. Its openness, honesty, and readable style have made the "Autobiography" one of the great classics of the genre. |
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... and my whole stock of cash consisted of a Dutch dollar , and about a shilling in copper . The latter I gave the people of the boat for my passage , who at first refus'd it , on account of my rowing ; but BENJAMIN FRANKLIN . III.
... and my whole stock of cash consisted of a Dutch dollar , and about a shilling in copper . The latter I gave the people of the boat for my passage , who at first refus'd it , on account of my rowing ; but BENJAMIN FRANKLIN . III.
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... shillings were paid to authors and printers of newspapers , such as Free Britons , Daily Courants , Corn - Cutters , Journals , Gazetteers and other political papers , between February 10 , 1731 , and February 10 , 1741 , ' which shows ...
... shillings were paid to authors and printers of newspapers , such as Free Britons , Daily Courants , Corn - Cutters , Journals , Gazetteers and other political papers , between February 10 , 1731 , and February 10 , 1741 , ' which shows ...
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... shillings and sixpence a week - as much as we could then afford . He found some relations , but they were poor , and unable to assist him . He now let me know his intentions of remaining in London , and that he never meant to return to ...
... shillings and sixpence a week - as much as we could then afford . He found some relations , but they were poor , and unable to assist him . He now let me know his intentions of remaining in London , and that he never meant to return to ...
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... shillings to pay out of his wages every Saturday night for that muddling liquor ; an expense I was free from . And thus these poor devils keep themselves always under . Watts , after some weeks , desiring to have me in the composing ...
... shillings to pay out of his wages every Saturday night for that muddling liquor ; an expense I was free from . And thus these poor devils keep themselves always under . Watts , after some weeks , desiring to have me in the composing ...
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... shillings a week on their accounts . This , and my being esteem'd a pretty good riggite , that is , a jocular verbal satirist , supported my conse- quence in the society . My constant attendance ( I never making a St. Monday ) ...
... shillings a week on their accounts . This , and my being esteem'd a pretty good riggite , that is , a jocular verbal satirist , supported my conse- quence in the society . My constant attendance ( I never making a St. Monday ) ...
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Страница 100 - I took a delight in it, practis'd it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not foresee, entangling them in difficulties out of which they could not extricate themselves, and so obtaining victories that neither myself nor my cause always deserved.
Страница 101 - If you ask, Why less properly ? I must repeat the lines : " Immodest words admit of no defense For want of modesty is want of sense.
Страница 222 - Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Страница 229 - And to this habit (after my character of integrity) I think it principally owing that I had early so much weight with my fellow-citizens when I proposed new institutions, or alterations in the old, and so much influence in public councils when I became a member ; for I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct in language, and yet I generally carried my points.
Страница 209 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Страница 223 - I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had imagined; but I had the satisfaction of seeing them diminish. To avoid the trouble of renewing now and then my little book, which, by scraping out the marks on the paper of old faults to make room for new ones in a new course, became full of holes...
Страница 91 - To return : I continued thus employed in my father's business for two years, that is, till I was twelve years old ; and my brother John, who was bred to that business...
Страница 99 - 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 112 - Second-street, and ask'd for bisket, intending such as we had in Boston; but they, it seems, were not made in Philadelphia. Then 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. He gave me, accordingly, three great puffy rolls. I was...
Страница 221 - 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.