The Essays, Humourous, Moral and Literary: Of the Late Benjamin FranklinJ. West, 1811 - 182 Seiten |
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... learning a new lan- guage , must have frequently observed , that while their acquaintance with it was imperfect , difficul ties , small in themselves , operated as great ones in obstructing their progress . A book , for ex- ample , ill ...
... learning a new lan- guage , must have frequently observed , that while their acquaintance with it was imperfect , difficul ties , small in themselves , operated as great ones in obstructing their progress . A book , for ex- ample , ill ...
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... learning on which we value ourselves they re- gard as frivolous and useless . An instance of this occurred at the treaty of Lancaster , in Penn- sylvania , anno 1744 , between the government of Virginia and the Six Nations . After the ...
... learning on which we value ourselves they re- gard as frivolous and useless . An instance of this occurred at the treaty of Lancaster , in Penn- sylvania , anno 1744 , between the government of Virginia and the Six Nations . After the ...
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... learning and understanding , averse to writing even a common letter . Let the pieces read by the sholars in this class be short ; such as Coxal's fables and little stories . In giving the lesson , let it be read to them ; let the ...
... learning and understanding , averse to writing even a common letter . Let the pieces read by the sholars in this class be short ; such as Coxal's fables and little stories . In giving the lesson , let it be read to them ; let the ...
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... learning the elements of rhetorick from some short system , so as to be able to give an account of the most use- ful tropes and figures . Let all their bad habits of speaking , all offences against good grammar , all corrupt or foreign ...
... learning the elements of rhetorick from some short system , so as to be able to give an account of the most use- ful tropes and figures . Let all their bad habits of speaking , all offences against good grammar , all corrupt or foreign ...
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... learning , making three degrees of comparison giving the best prize to him that performs best ; a less valuable one to him that comes up next to the best ; and another to the third . Commendations , encouragements , and advice to the ...
... learning , making three degrees of comparison giving the best prize to him that performs best ; a less valuable one to him that comes up next to the best ; and another to the third . Commendations , encouragements , and advice to the ...
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Seite 134 - It therefore astonishes me, sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does ; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our councils are confounded, like those of the builders of Babel ; and that our states are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose of cutting one another's throats. Thus I consent, sir, to this Constitution, because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.
Seite 98 - We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though 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.
Seite 133 - 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.
Seite 32 - 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.
Seite 98 - ... 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.
Seite 10 - I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers and sisters and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth. This put me in mind what good things I might have bought with the rest of the money; and they 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.
Seite 32 - Remember this saying, The good paymaster is lord of another man's purse. He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the time he promises, may at any time, and on any occasion, raise all the money his friends can spare. This is sometimes of great use.
Seite 126 - Tolerably good workmen in any of those mechanic arts are sure to find employ, and to be well paid for their work, there being no restraints preventing strangers from exercising any art they understand, nor any permission necessary. If they are poor, they begin first as servants or journeymen ; and if they are sober, industrious, and frugal, they soon become masters, establish themselves in business, marry, raise families, and become respectable citizens.
Seite 133 - But, though many private persons think almost as highly of their own infallibility as of that of their own sect, few express it so naturally as a certain French lady, who, in a little dispute with her sister, said, I dont know how it happens, sister, but I meet with nobody but myself that is always in the right.
Seite 17 - 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...