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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... expenses , such expenses , however , to be reimbursed by a tax laid on the colonies by act of Parliament . Franklin was alarmed at this , and he wrote several letters , some of which were afterwards published in the London Chronicle ...
... expenses , such expenses , however , to be reimbursed by a tax laid on the colonies by act of Parliament . Franklin was alarmed at this , and he wrote several letters , some of which were afterwards published in the London Chronicle ...
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... Jay was in Spain and John Adams in Holland , and neither could get money enough to pay their own expenses or their own salaries without drafts upon Franklin . When Franklin arrived abroad 70 Bi - Centennial of Birth of Frank'in.
... Jay was in Spain and John Adams in Holland , and neither could get money enough to pay their own expenses or their own salaries without drafts upon Franklin . When Franklin arrived abroad 70 Bi - Centennial of Birth of Frank'in.
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... expense of the exercises ; but it made both the appropriation and the making of arrangements conditional upon the city of Boston joining with the commonwealth and making a like appropriation for the purpose . I recommend that this be ...
... expense of the exercises ; but it made both the appropriation and the making of arrangements conditional upon the city of Boston joining with the commonwealth and making a like appropriation for the purpose . I recommend that this be ...
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... expense of publish- ing the proceedings of the celebration held under the direction of the Franklin Bi - Centennial Committee , on January 17 , 1906 ; the amount expended to be charged to the appropriation for Mayor , Public ...
... expense of publish- ing the proceedings of the celebration held under the direction of the Franklin Bi - Centennial Committee , on January 17 , 1906 ; the amount expended to be charged to the appropriation for Mayor , Public ...
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... expense ; the greater ease in keeping our houses clean , so much dirt not being brought in by people's feet ; the benefit to the shops by more custom , etc. , etc. , as buyers could more easily get at them ; and by not having , in windy ...
... expense ; the greater ease in keeping our houses clean , so much dirt not being brought in by people's feet ; the benefit to the shops by more custom , etc. , etc. , as buyers could more easily get at them ; and by not having , in windy ...
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Abraham Acting Mayor Ambassador American appropriation for Mayor assembly bald eagle Benjamin Franklin better birth of Benjamin BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS called 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 London Lord managers Mayor be authorized nation never occasion orator papers 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 97 - 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 102 - 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 68 - 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 75 - 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 111 - 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 92 - 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 92 - 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 91 - 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 92 - 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 111 - 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.