Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, Band 1Harper & brothers, 1839 |
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... present , perhaps , you may think yourselves in thriving circumstances , and that you can bear a little extravagance without injury ; but For age and want save while you may ; No morning sun lasts a whole day . Gain may be temporary and ...
... present , perhaps , you may think yourselves in thriving circumstances , and that you can bear a little extravagance without injury ; but For age and want save while you may ; No morning sun lasts a whole day . Gain may be temporary and ...
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... present , and at- tended with immediate misery . Reason represents things to us not only as they are at present , but as they are in their whole nature and tendency ; passion only regards them in the former light . When this governs us ...
... present , and at- tended with immediate misery . Reason represents things to us not only as they are at present , but as they are in their whole nature and tendency ; passion only regards them in the former light . When this governs us ...
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... present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires . The passions , by being too much conversant with earthly objects , can never fix in us a proper com- posure and acquiescence of mind . Nothing but an indifference to the ...
... present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires . The passions , by being too much conversant with earthly objects , can never fix in us a proper com- posure and acquiescence of mind . Nothing but an indifference to the ...
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... present . There is no happiness , then , but in a virtuous and self - approving conduct . Unless our actions will bear the test of our sober judgments and reflections upon them , they are not the actions , and , conse- quently , not the ...
... present . There is no happiness , then , but in a virtuous and self - approving conduct . Unless our actions will bear the test of our sober judgments and reflections upon them , they are not the actions , and , conse- quently , not the ...
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... present himself to be employed ? ' 666 Perhaps I might , ' said Charmidas ; ' but why do you ask me this question ? ' Socrates replied , " Be- cause you are capable of managing the affairs of the republic , and nevertheless you avoid ...
... present himself to be employed ? ' 666 Perhaps I might , ' said Charmidas ; ' but why do you ask me this question ? ' Socrates replied , " Be- cause you are capable of managing the affairs of the republic , and nevertheless you avoid ...
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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