The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Band 1J. B. Lippincott Company, 1893 |
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... suppose you may like to know what kind of a man my father was . He had an excellent constitution , and was of a middle stature , well set , and very strong ; he could draw prettily , and was a little skilled in music ; his voice was son ...
... suppose you may like to know what kind of a man my father was . He had an excellent constitution , and was of a middle stature , well set , and very strong ; he could draw prettily , and was a little skilled in music ; his voice was son ...
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... suppose they thereby acquired some right in the copy . As to the Life pro- posed to be written , if it be by the same hand who fur- nished a sketch to Dr. Lettsom , which he sent me , I am afraid it will be found too full of errors for ...
... suppose they thereby acquired some right in the copy . As to the Life pro- posed to be written , if it be by the same hand who fur- nished a sketch to Dr. Lettsom , which he sent me , I am afraid it will be found too full of errors for ...
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... suppose , of the nomination by the President of Mr. Gouverneur Morris to be minister at your Court ? It has , however , suffered some demur in the Senate , and has not been yet confirmed . " I have no doubt , however , but it will ...
... suppose , of the nomination by the President of Mr. Gouverneur Morris to be minister at your Court ? It has , however , suffered some demur in the Senate , and has not been yet confirmed . " I have no doubt , however , but it will ...
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... suppose it was formerly the fashion , or Virgil , that courtly writer , would not have put a speech into the mouth of his hero , which now - a - days we should esteem so great an indecency : ' Sum pius Æneas famâ super æthera notus ...
... suppose it was formerly the fashion , or Virgil , that courtly writer , would not have put a speech into the mouth of his hero , which now - a - days we should esteem so great an indecency : ' Sum pius Æneas famâ super æthera notus ...
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... suppose , would have been glad to invent and propagate any story to my disadvantage , but they could never find any which they thought would wear the face of probability . I cannot say there is no vanity in making this funeral oration ...
... suppose , would have been glad to invent and propagate any story to my disadvantage , but they could never find any which they thought would wear the face of probability . I cannot say there is no vanity in making this funeral oration ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 115 - For, if you would inform, a positive and dogmatical manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly...
Seite 114 - I took a delight in it, practis'd it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not foresee, entangling them in difficulties out of which they could not extricate themselves, and so obtaining victories that neither myself nor my cause always deserved.
Seite 127 - Street wharf, near the boat I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water; and being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther.
Seite 110 - ... in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should occur to me. Then I compared my ' Spectator ' with the original, discovered some of my faults and corrected them.
Seite 116 - I was excited to try my hand among them ; but being still a boy, and suspecting that my brother would object to printing anything of mine in his paper if he knew it to be mine...
Seite 161 - Water-American, as they called me, was stronger than themselves, who drank strong beer! We had an alehouse boy who attended always in the house to supply the workmen. My companion at the press drank every day a pint before breakfast, a pint at breakfast with his bread and cheese, a pint between breakfast and dinner, a pint at dinner, a pint in the afternoon about six o'clock, and another when he had done his day's work.
Seite 223 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Seite 178 - ... was intended by them: For the Arguments of the Deists which were quoted to be refuted, appeared to me much Stronger than the Refutations. In short I soon became a thorough Deist. My Arguments perverted some others, particularly Collins and Ralph: but each of them having afterwards...
Seite 236 - Father of light and life ! thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ! teach me Thyself ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Seite 105 - To return : I continued thus employed in my father's business for two years, that is, till I was twelve years old ; and my brother John, who was bred to that business...