The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author, Band 1Hillard, Gray, 1840 |
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... Instruction of Germans in Pennsylvania . - CHAPTER XI . Appointed One of the Commissioners for appropriating the public Money for military Defence . - Proposes a Militia Bill , which pass- es the Assembly . -Commissioned to take Charge ...
... Instruction of Germans in Pennsylvania . - CHAPTER XI . Appointed One of the Commissioners for appropriating the public Money for military Defence . - Proposes a Militia Bill , which pass- es the Assembly . -Commissioned to take Charge ...
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... instruction and improvement from others , you should not at the same time express yourself fixed in your present opinions . Modest and sensible men , who do not love disputation , will leave you undisturbed in the possession of your ...
... instruction and improvement from others , you should not at the same time express yourself fixed in your present opinions . Modest and sensible men , who do not love disputation , will leave you undisturbed in the possession of your ...
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... instructions he sometimes disregard- ed . Several of our best laws were of his planning , and passed during his administration . Ralph and I were inseparable companions . We took lodgings together in Little Britain at three shillings ...
... instructions he sometimes disregard- ed . Several of our best laws were of his planning , and passed during his administration . Ralph and I were inseparable companions . We took lodgings together in Little Britain at three shillings ...
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... instructions ; so I returned , and we more smoothly than for some time before . The New Jersey job was obtained , I contrived a copper - plate press for it , the first that had been seen in the country ; I cut several ornaments and ...
... instructions ; so I returned , and we more smoothly than for some time before . The New Jersey job was obtained , I contrived a copper - plate press for it , the first that had been seen in the country ; I cut several ornaments and ...
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... instructions to demand a settled salary of one thousand pounds sterling per annum , on him and all his successors , and the Assembly were required to fix it immediately , he insisted on it strenuously to the last , and they as ...
... instructions to demand a settled salary of one thousand pounds sterling per annum , on him and all his successors , and the Assembly were required to fix it immediately , he insisted on it strenuously to the last , and they as ...
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acquaintance advantage affairs afterwards American appeared appointed arrived Art of Virtue Assembly attended Benjamin Franklin Boston British brother called captain colonies commissioners conduct Congress continued dispute Ecton EDITOR employed endeavour England father favor France French friends gave give Governor hands honor Hugh Meredith instructions Keimer King letters liberty lived lodged London Lord Lord Chatham Lord Hillsborough Lord Kames means ment ministers never obtained occasion opinion pamphlet paper Paris Parliament Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Gazette persons Peter Folger Philadelphia political pounds pounds sterling present principles printed printer printing-house procure proposed Proprietaries province published Quakers Ralph received respect sail says seems sent ship Society soon Stamp Act Street thing thought tion took town treaty Vergennes virtue volumes William William Temple Franklin writing wrote young
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Seite 514 - I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: That God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured, sir, in the sacred writings, that 'except the Lord build the House they labour in vain that build it.
Seite 51 - Silence, ye wolves ! while Ralph to Cynthia howls And makes night hideous — Answer him, ye owls ! " Sense, speech, and measure, living tongues and dead, Let all give way, and Morris may be read.
Seite 595 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Seite 106 - ORDER Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
Seite 10 - My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the church. My early readiness in learning to read (which must have been very early, as I do not remember when I could not read...
Seite 571 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Seite 514 - In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for the Divine protection. Our prayers, sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered.
Seite 110 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Seite 12 - At his table he liked to have, as often as he could, some sensible friend or neighbour to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse, which might tend to improve the minds of his children. By this means he turned our attention to what was good, just, and prudent in the conduct of life...
Seite 111 - 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...