Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, Band 1Harper & brothers, 1839 |
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... wind to waft me to America , but cannot leave this happy island and my friends in it without extreme regret , though I am going to a country and a people that I love . I am going from the Old World to the New , and I fancy I feel like ...
... wind to waft me to America , but cannot leave this happy island and my friends in it without extreme regret , though I am going to a country and a people that I love . I am going from the Old World to the New , and I fancy I feel like ...
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... wind , we were obliged , when the ebb was spent , to cast anchor and wait for the next . The heat of the sun on the vessel was excessive , the company strangers to me , and not very agreeable . Near the river - side I saw what I took to ...
... wind , we were obliged , when the ebb was spent , to cast anchor and wait for the next . The heat of the sun on the vessel was excessive , the company strangers to me , and not very agreeable . Near the river - side I saw what I took to ...
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... wind , hail , and rain , seemed to be threatened with absolute destruction ; yet the storm being past , it recovers fresh verdure , shoots up with double vigour , and delights the eye not of its owner only , but of every observing ...
... wind , hail , and rain , seemed to be threatened with absolute destruction ; yet the storm being past , it recovers fresh verdure , shoots up with double vigour , and delights the eye not of its owner only , but of every observing ...
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... we hope for each a prosperous voyage ; but contrary winds , hidden shoals , storms , and en- emies , come in for a share in the disposition of events ; and though these occasion a mixture of dis- 182 WRITINGS OF FRANKLIN .
... we hope for each a prosperous voyage ; but contrary winds , hidden shoals , storms , and en- emies , come in for a share in the disposition of events ; and though these occasion a mixture of dis- 182 WRITINGS OF FRANKLIN .
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... mischief to you , and no benefit to others . He that spits against the wind , spits in his own face . But were you to succeed , do you imagine any good would be done by it ? You yourself may find it easy 200 WRITINGS OF FRANKLIN . To ***
... mischief to you , and no benefit to others . He that spits against the wind , spits in his own face . But were you to succeed , do you imagine any good would be done by it ? You yourself may find it easy 200 WRITINGS OF FRANKLIN . To ***
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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