Benjamin Franklin: His Autobiography; with a Narrative of His Public Life and ServicesHarper, 1856 - 549 Seiten |
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... perhaps be desirous of learning the means which I employed , and which , thanks to Providence , so well succeeded with me . They may also deem them fit to be imi- tated , should any of them find themselves in similar circumstances ...
... perhaps be desirous of learning the means which I employed , and which , thanks to Providence , so well succeeded with me . They may also deem them fit to be imi- tated , should any of them find themselves in similar circumstances ...
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... perhaps not a little gratify my own vanity . Indeed , I never heard or saw the introductory words " With- out vanity I may say , " & c . , but some vain thing immediately followed . Most people dislike vanity in others , whatever share ...
... perhaps not a little gratify my own vanity . Indeed , I never heard or saw the introductory words " With- out vanity I may say , " & c . , but some vain thing immediately followed . Most people dislike vanity in others , whatever share ...
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... perhaps , for his station . There fell lately into my hands , in London , a col- lection he made of all the principal political pam- phlets relating to public affairs , from the year 1641 to 1717 ; many of the volumes are wanting , as ...
... perhaps , for his station . There fell lately into my hands , in London , a col- lection he made of all the principal political pam- phlets relating to public affairs , from the year 1641 to 1717 ; many of the volumes are wanting , as ...
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... Perhaps it is only negligence . 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 , having left my father , married ...
... Perhaps it is only negligence . 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 , having left my father , married ...
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... perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life . This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make me a printer , though he had already one son ( James ) of that ...
... perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life . This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make me a printer , though he had already one son ( James ) of that ...
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acquainted affairs afterward agent America answer appeared appointed Assembly attended Benjamin Franklin Boston Britain British captain character colonies colonists continued conversation crown defense desired disputes doctor endeavored enemies England father favor Franklin friends gave give governor hands honor horses House hundred Indians inhabitants interest Joseph Galloway Keimer letter lodged London Lord Chatham Lord Dartmouth Lord Hillsborough Lord Kames Lord Loudoun measures ment ministry never obtained occasion officers opinion paid pamphlet paper Parliament party Paxton Boys Penn Pennsylvania persons petition Philadelphia pounds sterling present printed printer printing-house procure proposed proprietary province Quakers received repeal respect sailed sent shillings ship soon Stamp Act street thing Thomas Penn Thomas Whately thought tion told took troops virtue wagons William Penn writing wrote young
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Seite 23 - I discovered many faults and amended them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.
Seite 22 - ... 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 come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected them.
Seite 136 - 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 fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!
Seite 136 - 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 26 - I conceive or apprehend a thing to be so and so ; it appears to me, or I should think it so or so, for such and such reasons ; or I imagine it to be so; or it is so, if I am not mistaken. This habit, I believe, has been of great advantage to me when I have had occasion to inculcate my opinions, and persuade men into measures that I have been from time to time...
Seite 167 - 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 wholly into the collector's dish, — gold and all.
Seite 128 - ... luxury will enter families, and make a progress, in spite of principle; being called one morning to breakfast, I found it in a china bowl, with a spoon of silver! They had been bought for me without my knowledge by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum of...
Seite 43 - 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. Thus...
Seite 97 - Deism fell into my hands; they were said to be the substance of sermons preached at Boyle's Lectures. It happened that they wrought an effect on me quite contrary to what 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.
Seite 549 - 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.