The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral, and Literary, with His LifeBooksellers, 1840 - 320 Seiten |
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... says Mr. J. as long as the Greeks did before they produced a Homer , the Romans a Virgil , the French a Racine and Voltaire , the English a Shakspeare and Milton , should this reproach be still true , we will inquire from what ...
... says Mr. J. as long as the Greeks did before they produced a Homer , the Romans a Virgil , the French a Racine and Voltaire , the English a Shakspeare and Milton , should this reproach be still true , we will inquire from what ...
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... say to myself , that , were the offer made to me , I would engage to run again , from beginning to end , the same career of life . All I would ask , should be the privilege of an author , to correct , in a second edition , certain ...
... say to myself , that , were the offer made to me , I would engage to run again , from beginning to end , the same career of life . All I would ask , should be the privilege of an author , to correct , in a second edition , certain ...
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... say to his friends , that persons so edu , cated were often poorly provided for , he renounced his first intentions , took me from the grammar- school , and sent me to a school for writing and arithmetic , kept by a Mr. George Bromwell ...
... say to his friends , that persons so edu , cated were often poorly provided for , he renounced his first intentions , took me from the grammar- school , and sent me to a school for writing and arithmetic , kept by a Mr. George Bromwell ...
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... say , till I arrived at twelve years of age . this time , my brother John , who had served his ap- prenticeship in London , having quitted my father , and being married and settled in business on his own account , at Rhode Island ; I ...
... say , till I arrived at twelve years of age . this time , my brother John , who had served his ap- prenticeship in London , having quitted my father , and being married and settled in business on his own account , at Rhode Island ; I ...
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... say with less propriety , I must give you the two lines together : - Immodest words admit of no defence , For want of decency is want of sense . Now want of sense , when a man has the misfortune to be so circumstanced , is it not a kind ...
... say with less propriety , I must give you the two lines together : - Immodest words admit of no defence , For want of decency is want of sense . Now want of sense , when a man has the misfortune to be so circumstanced , is it not a kind ...
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Seite 274 - ... for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost;" being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for the want of a little care about a horseshoe nail!
Seite 156 - The Body Of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, (Like the cover of an old book, Its contents torn out, And stript of its lettering and gilding,) Lies here, food for worms. But the work shall not be lost, For it will, as he believed, appear once more, In a new and more elegant edition, Revised and corrected By THE AUTHOR.
Seite 271 - Key is always bright, as Poor Richard says. But dost thou love Life, then do not squander Time, for that's the Stuff Life is made of, as Poor Richard says. — How much more than is necessary do we spend in Sleep! forgetting that The sleeping Fox catches no Poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the Grave, as Poor Richard says.
Seite 273 - And again, Three removes are as bad as a fire ; and again, Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee ; and again, If you would have your business done, go ; if not, send. And again, — He that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.
Seite 277 - Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped with Infamy. And after all, of what Use is this Pride of Appearance, for which so much is risked, so much is suffered? It cannot promote Health, or ease Pain; it makes no Increase of Merit in the Person, it creates Envy, it hastens Misfortune.
Seite 270 - Ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness, three times as much by our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly; and from these Taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement. However let us hearken to good Advice, and something may be done for us; God helps them that help themselves, as Poor Richard says, in his Almanack of 1733.
Seite 276 - If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for, he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing; and indeed so does he that lends to such people, when he goes to get it in again.
Seite 274 - A fat Kitchen makes a lean Will, as Poor Richard says; and Many Estates are spent in the Getting, Since Women for Tea forsook Spinning and Knitting, And Men for Punch forsook Hewing and Splitting.
Seite 280 - I had made of the sense of all ages and nations. However, I resolved to be the better for the echo of it, and though I had at first determined to buy stuff for a new coat, I went away resolved to wear my old one a little longer. Reader, if thou wilt do the same, thy profit will be as great as mine.
Seite 271 - He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor'; but then the trade must be worked at, and the calling well followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, as Poor Richard says, 'At the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter.