Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, Band 1Harper & brothers, 1839 |
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... greater than her incomes . " Away , then , with your expensive follies , and you will not then have so much cause to complain of hard times , heavy taxes , and chargeable fami- lies . And farther , What maintains one vice would bring up ...
... greater than her incomes . " Away , then , with your expensive follies , and you will not then have so much cause to complain of hard times , heavy taxes , and chargeable fami- lies . And farther , What maintains one vice would bring up ...
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... greater trust upon you . But now , when you find yourself incapable of aiding a private man , how can you think of behaving yourself so as to be useful to a whole people ? Ought a man , who has not strength enought to carry a hundred ...
... greater trust upon you . But now , when you find yourself incapable of aiding a private man , how can you think of behaving yourself so as to be useful to a whole people ? Ought a man , who has not strength enought to carry a hundred ...
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... greater the self - de- nial the greater the virtue . If it were said that he who cannot deny himself anything he inclines to , though he knows it will be to his hurt , has not the virtue of resolution or forti- tude , it would be ...
... greater the self - de- nial the greater the virtue . If it were said that he who cannot deny himself anything he inclines to , though he knows it will be to his hurt , has not the virtue of resolution or forti- tude , it would be ...
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... greater the self - denial the great- er the merit . The self - denial here meant must be when our in- clinations are towards vice , or else it would still be nonsense . By merit is understood desert ; and when we say a man merits , we ...
... greater the self - denial the great- er the merit . The self - denial here meant must be when our in- clinations are towards vice , or else it would still be nonsense . By merit is understood desert ; and when we say a man merits , we ...
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... the un- changed air , often breathed , of a close chamber . As boiling water does not grow hotter by longer boiling , if the particles that receive greater heat can escape , so living bodies do not putrefy if 32 WRITINGS OF FRANKLIN .
... the un- changed air , often breathed , of a close chamber . As boiling water does not grow hotter by longer boiling , if the particles that receive greater heat can escape , so living bodies do not putrefy if 32 WRITINGS OF FRANKLIN .
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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