Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, Band 2Harper & brothers, 1842 |
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... Light 224 and Heat • Of Lightning ; and the Methods now used in America for the securing Buildings and Persons from its mischievous Effects To Peter Collinson . - Electrical Kite . Physical and Meteorological Observations , Conjectures ...
... Light 224 and Heat • Of Lightning ; and the Methods now used in America for the securing Buildings and Persons from its mischievous Effects To Peter Collinson . - Electrical Kite . Physical and Meteorological Observations , Conjectures ...
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... light . When this governs us , we are re- gardless of the future , and are only affected with the present . It is impossible ever to enjoy our- selves rightly , if our conduct be not such as to pre- serve the harmony and order of our ...
... light . When this governs us , we are re- gardless of the future , and are only affected with the present . It is impossible ever to enjoy our- selves rightly , if our conduct be not such as to pre- serve the harmony and order of our ...
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... they would save , both to themselves and customers , the unpleasantness of haggling . * Truth is brighter than light . Though there are numbers of shopkeepers who scorn the mean 50 WRITINGS OF FRANKLIN . On Truth and Falsehood.
... they would save , both to themselves and customers , the unpleasantness of haggling . * Truth is brighter than light . Though there are numbers of shopkeepers who scorn the mean 50 WRITINGS OF FRANKLIN . On Truth and Falsehood.
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... light of the earth , the pedestal of justice , and the basis of good policy . Eschines told the same people , that truth was a virtue without which force was enfeebled , justice corrupted ; humility became dissimulation , patience ...
... light of the earth , the pedestal of justice , and the basis of good policy . Eschines told the same people , that truth was a virtue without which force was enfeebled , justice corrupted ; humility became dissimulation , patience ...
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... light will , in their chronology , be styled the great era of their creation . Let us now suppose this venerable insect , this Nestor of Hypania , should , a little before his death , and about sunset , send for all his descendants ...
... light will , in their chronology , be styled the great era of their creation . Let us now suppose this venerable insect , this Nestor of Hypania , should , a little before his death , and about sunset , send for all his descendants ...
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