Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, Band 2Harper & brothers, 1842 |
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... greater than her incomes . 66 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 ...
... greater than her incomes . 66 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 ...
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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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