Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, Band 1Harper & brothers, 1839 |
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... Virtue On the Usefulness of the Mathematics The Art of procuring Pleasant Dreams Advice to a young Tradesman Rules of Health • The Ephemera ; an Emblem of Human Life . To Madame Brillon , of Passy The Whistle . To Madame Brillon On ...
... Virtue On the Usefulness of the Mathematics The Art of procuring Pleasant Dreams Advice to a young Tradesman Rules of Health • The Ephemera ; an Emblem of Human Life . To Madame Brillon , of Passy The Whistle . To Madame Brillon On ...
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... virtue , we shall soon see the disconnexion between that and true , solid happiness . It is of the very essence , for instance , of envy to be uneasy and disquieted . Pride meets with provocations and disturbances upon almost every ...
... virtue , we shall soon see the disconnexion between that and true , solid happiness . It is of the very essence , for instance , of envy to be uneasy and disquieted . Pride meets with provocations and disturbances upon almost every ...
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... virtue , because he was scarce ever known to be quite drunken , nor was his nature much in- clined to licentiousness . One evening , as he was musing alone , his thoughts happened to take a most unusual turn , for they cast a glance ...
... virtue , because he was scarce ever known to be quite drunken , nor was his nature much in- clined to licentiousness . One evening , as he was musing alone , his thoughts happened to take a most unusual turn , for they cast a glance ...
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... 't taught to flatter and to lie , There's nothing better will be said , Than that they've eat up all their bread , Drunk all their drink , and gone to bed . SELF - DENIAL NOT THE ESSENCE OF VIRTUE . It 24 WRITINGS OF FRANKLIN .
... 't taught to flatter and to lie , There's nothing better will be said , Than that they've eat up all their bread , Drunk all their drink , and gone to bed . SELF - DENIAL NOT THE ESSENCE OF VIRTUE . It 24 WRITINGS OF FRANKLIN .
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... virtue , and that the 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 ...
... virtue , and that the 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 ...
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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