Two-hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Benjamin Franklin: Celebration by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the City of Boston, Symphony Hall, January Seventeenth, 1906 ...The University Press, 1906 - 113 Seiten |
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... development of honorable trade , his power in shaping the character of a great city , his influence in bringing into being a new and prophetic nation , and in the service of this nation 17 Prayer by the Rev Dr George A Gordon.
... development of honorable trade , his power in shaping the character of a great city , his influence in bringing into being a new and prophetic nation , and in the service of this nation 17 Prayer by the Rev Dr George A Gordon.
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... character so many sides of a distinguished life that it is not easy to select any particular setting in which he shone the most , he was so brilliant in them all . Whether considered as a printer , a patriot , or a philosopher he ...
... character so many sides of a distinguished life that it is not easy to select any particular setting in which he shone the most , he was so brilliant in them all . Whether considered as a printer , a patriot , or a philosopher he ...
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... character in American history ; though many of his admirers do not admit even this exception . During the war of the Revolution he was a venerable man , the senior of Washington by more than twenty - five years ; and Washington himself ...
... character in American history ; though many of his admirers do not admit even this exception . During the war of the Revolution he was a venerable man , the senior of Washington by more than twenty - five years ; and Washington himself ...
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... character , not only with the press of Franklin's day , but with the press of other commonwealths . Cer- tainly no such slanderous articles in regard to Benjamin Harrison , of Virginia , as were printed in the Boston News - Letter a ...
... character , not only with the press of Franklin's day , but with the press of other commonwealths . Cer- tainly no such slanderous articles in regard to Benjamin Harrison , of Virginia , as were printed in the Boston News - Letter a ...
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... Character from at least two respectable Citizens , who are willing to become their Sureties in a Bond with the Applicants for the Repayment of the Monies so lent them with Interest according to the Terms herein ( B. Franklin ) after ...
... Character from at least two respectable Citizens , who are willing to become their Sureties in a Bond with the Applicants for the Repayment of the Monies so lent them with Interest according to the Terms herein ( B. Franklin ) after ...
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Abraham Acting Mayor Ambassador American appropriation for Mayor assembly bald eagle Benjamin Franklin birth of Benjamin BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS British called celebration chairman character citizens City Council city of Boston colonies colonists Commonwealth of Massachusetts Congress considered Constitution Court CURTIS GUILD debt to Franklin endeavor England ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOL exercises expense father FITZGERALD France Franklin Bi-Centennial Committee Franklin Fund French gave Governor HENRY SMITH PRITCHETT honor hundred hundredth anniversary industry inhabitants interest invitation JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE January 17 John Adams Jusserand LL.D Lord managers Mayor be authorized nation never occasion orator Paris Parliament patriot Philadelphia philosopher President printer PRITCHETT Province of Pennsylvania repealed Republic Revolution SAMUEL ABBOTT GREEN sent shillings Stamp Act stand Street Symphony Hall thee thou thought thousand pounds to-day Town of Boston Washington whistle whole Written
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Seite 93 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver ; and he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket...
Seite 98 - In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality — that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
Seite 67 - MR. STRAHAN, You are a member of parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. — You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our people. — Look upon your hands! — They are stained with the blood of your relations ! — You and I were long friends: — You are now my enemy, — and I am • Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
Seite 73 - Good," which I think was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor, that several leaves of it were torn out; but the remainder gave me such a turn of thinking, as to have an influence on my conduct through life; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good, than on any other kind of reputation; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to that book.
Seite 107 - In this situation of this Assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights, to illuminate our understandings...
Seite 88 - I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the writing excellent and wished if possible to imitate it.
Seite 88 - I met a boy with bread. I had made many a meal on bread, and, inquiring where he got it, I went immediately to the baker's he directed me to, in...
Seite 87 - Brownell, very successful in his profession generally, and that by mild, encouraging methods. Under him I acquired fair writing pretty soon, but I failed in the arithmetic, and made no progress in it. At ten years old...
Seite 88 - I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there. I was in my working dress, my best clothes being to come round by sea.
Seite 107 - MR. PRESIDENT, The small progress we have made, after four or five weeks' close attendance and continual reasonings with each other, our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many Noes as Ayes, is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since VOL.