Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, Band 1Harper & brothers, 1839 |
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... body , though so far necessary that we cannot be perfectly happy without it , is not sufficient to make us happy of itself . Happiness springs immedi- ately from the mind ; health is but to be consider- ed as a condition or circumstance ...
... body , though so far necessary that we cannot be perfectly happy without it , is not sufficient to make us happy of itself . Happiness springs immedi- ately from the mind ; health is but to be consider- ed as a condition or circumstance ...
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... body . If our desires are to the things of this world , they are never to be satisfied . If our great view is upon those of the next , the expectation of them is an in- finitely higher satisfaction than the enjoyment of those of the ...
... body . If our desires are to the things of this world , they are never to be satisfied . If our great view is upon those of the next , the expectation of them is an in- finitely higher satisfaction than the enjoyment of those of the ...
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... body . Thus he had made a shift to wear off ten years since the paternal estate fell into his hands ; and yet , accord- ing to the abuse of words in our day , he was called a man of virtue , because he was scarce ever known to be quite ...
... body . Thus he had made a shift to wear off ten years since the paternal estate fell into his hands ; and yet , accord- ing to the abuse of words in our day , he was called a man of virtue , because he was scarce ever known to be quite ...
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... body of mine , this wretched strainer of meat and drink . " And what have I done all this time for God or man ? What a vast profusion of good things upon a useless life and a worthless liver ! There is not the meanest creature among all ...
... body of mine , this wretched strainer of meat and drink . " And what have I done all this time for God or man ? What a vast profusion of good things upon a useless life and a worthless liver ! There is not the meanest creature among all ...
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... bodies , their situations , positions , risings , settings , aspects , and eclipses ; also the measure of seasons , of years , and of ages . It is by the assistance of this science that geog- raphers present to our view at once the ...
... bodies , their situations , positions , risings , settings , aspects , and eclipses ; also the measure of seasons , of years , and of ages . It is by the assistance of this science that geog- raphers present to our view at once the ...
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acquainted affairs America appear become body called Catania cause centrifugal force clouds cold conductors continue David Hartley dear friend degree descending earth earthquakes endeavour England equal esteem farther favour fire fluid force Francis Hopkinson FRANKLIN give Glaucon globe gout hand happiness heat Hence honour hope imagine industry kind letter king king's counsel labour land late leave less light live Lord Kames Marquis de Lafayette matter ment mind motion nation nature necessary never New-York obliged observed occasion opinion paper Parliament particles pass Passy perhaps person Philadelphia Philosophical pleasure Poor Richard says present punishment pyrites quantity reason received rising river salt seawater Socrates soon spiracles spout Star Chamber suppose surface things thought tion vapour virtue warm whirl whirlwind wind wish write