The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinH. Altemus, 1895 - 287 Seiten 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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... whole by myself with the greatest ease . I also read Seller's and Shermy's books on Navigation , which made me acquainted with the little geometry they contain ; but I never proceeded far in that science . I read about this time Locke ...
... whole by myself with the greatest ease . I also read Seller's and Shermy's books on Navigation , which made me acquainted with the little geometry they contain ; but I never proceeded far in that science . I read about this time Locke ...
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... whole life . One of the pieces in our newspaper on some politi- cal point , which I have now forgotten , gave offence to the Assembly . He was taken up , censured , and imprisoned for a month by the Speaker's warrant , I suppose because ...
... whole life . One of the pieces in our newspaper on some politi- cal point , which I have now forgotten , gave offence to the Assembly . He was taken up , censured , and imprisoned for a month by the Speaker's warrant , I suppose because ...
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... whole time , and now pushed them to more arbitrary measures . They condescended , however , to specify a particular article , as affording the ground of their proceedings . This was an essay on Hypocrisy , in which hypocrites of various ...
... whole time , and now pushed them to more arbitrary measures . They condescended , however , to specify a particular article , as affording the ground of their proceedings . This was an essay on Hypocrisy , in which hypocrites of various ...
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... whole stock of cash consisted in a single dollar , and about a shilling in copper coin , which I gave to the boatmen for my passage . At first they refused it , on account of my having rowed ; but I insisted on their taking it . Man is ...
... whole stock of cash consisted in a single dollar , and about a shilling in copper coin , which I gave to the boatmen for my passage . At first they refused it , on account of my having rowed ; but I insisted on their taking it . Man is ...
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... whole before we came . I had made some courtship during this time to Miss Read . I had a great respect and affection for her , and had some reasons to believe she had the same for me ; but , as I was about to take a long voyage , and we ...
... whole before we came . I had made some courtship during this time to Miss Read . I had a great respect and affection for her , and had some reasons to believe she had the same for me ; but , as I was about to take a long voyage , and we ...
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accordingly acquaintance advantage affairs afterwards appeared arrived ART OF VIRTUE Assembly attend began Benjamin Franklin Boston bred brother brought called captain conduct continued debt defence desired dispute employed endeavour England England Courant father favour friends gave give Governor hand honour horses Hugh Meredith hundred pounds inhabitants instructions Keimer length letters Little Britain lived lodged London Lord Loudoun means Meredith ness never newspaper obtained occasion officers opinion paid pamphlet paper partnership Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Gazette perhaps Philadelphia piece poor Poor Richard's Almanac pounds currency pounds sterling preached printed printer printing-house procure proposed Proprietaries province Quakers Ralph received sailed sect seems sent sermons shillings sometimes soon street subscription things thought thousand pounds tion told took uncle Benjamin virtue wagons Whitefield writing wrote York young
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Seite 149 - 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.
Seite 41 - 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.
Seite 155 - 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!
Seite 60 - 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. Thus refreshed, I walked again up the street, which by this time had many clean-dressed people in it, who were all walking the same way.
Seite 46 - Tis not enough your counsel still be true ; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do ; Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Seite 154 - 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.
Seite 33 - At his table he liked to have, as often as he could, some sensible friend or neighbour to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse, which might tend to improve the minds of his children. By this means he turned our attention to what was good, just, and prudent, in the conduct of life; and little or no notice was ever taken of what related to the victuals on the table; whether it was well or ill dressed, in or out of season, of good or bad flavor, preferable...
Seite 159 - ... a speckled ax was best"; for something, that pretended to be reason, was every now and then suggesting to me that such extream nicety as I exacted of myself might be a kind of foppery in morals, which, if it were known, would make me ridiculous; that a perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
Seite 42 - I had gone on making verses ; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. Therefore, I took some of the tales and turned them into verse ; and after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again.
Seite 154 - I could go thro' a course complete in thirteen weeks, and four courses in a year. And like him who, having a garden to weed, does not attempt to eradicate all the bad herbs at once, which would exceed his reach and his strength, but works on one of the beds at a time, and having...