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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... nature was social , his ambition involved service . In these days of fever- ish and reckless speculation , the youth of our city could not have a better model than this printer's apprentice who by frugality and industry rose out of want ...
... nature was social , his ambition involved service . In these days of fever- ish and reckless speculation , the youth of our city could not have a better model than this printer's apprentice who by frugality and industry rose out of want ...
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... nature and temperament , and who could not regard his associate in the great business he accomplished with entire equanimity , did not hesitate to write of him while in France : " Franklin's reputation was more universal than that of ...
... nature and temperament , and who could not regard his associate in the great business he accomplished with entire equanimity , did not hesitate to write of him while in France : " Franklin's reputation was more universal than that of ...
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... nature under the skies of colonial America . I realize , " said Mr. Greeley , " that there are elements of dignity , of grandeur , in the char- acter of Washington , for which that of Franklin affords no parallel , " but when we ...
... nature under the skies of colonial America . I realize , " said Mr. Greeley , " that there are elements of dignity , of grandeur , in the char- acter of Washington , for which that of Franklin affords no parallel , " but when we ...
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... sufficient to show that Franklin was unique in character , and that his services were of the pro- foundest nature and of inestimable value . These estimates come to us with only one distracting note 52 Bi - Centennial of Birth of Franklin.
... sufficient to show that Franklin was unique in character , and that his services were of the pro- foundest nature and of inestimable value . These estimates come to us with only one distracting note 52 Bi - Centennial of Birth of Franklin.
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... nature of interest . Franklin was the intimate friend of the leading physiocrats , such men as Dupont , De Nemours , Dubourg , Mirabeau , Turgot , Morellet , and even of the great Quesnay . Malthus had to follow him in his disquisitions ...
... nature of interest . Franklin was the intimate friend of the leading physiocrats , such men as Dupont , De Nemours , Dubourg , Mirabeau , Turgot , Morellet , and even of the great Quesnay . Malthus had to follow him in his disquisitions ...
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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.