Some Verdicts of History ReviewedJohn Murray, 1887 - 416 Seiten |
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... fortunes and characters I have traced agree in their enjoyment of extraordinary distinction once , and in their condemnation , with the exception of Franklin , to odium or obscurity now . Franklin himself has lost his power of literary ...
... fortunes and characters I have traced agree in their enjoyment of extraordinary distinction once , and in their condemnation , with the exception of Franklin , to odium or obscurity now . Franklin himself has lost his power of literary ...
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... fortune , so sage as , though possessed of a large estate , to decline an alliance which would not have increased it , was marked out for worldly success . At Oxford , to which he now went , he displayed as deter- mined a character . He ...
... fortune , so sage as , though possessed of a large estate , to decline an alliance which would not have increased it , was marked out for worldly success . At Oxford , to which he now went , he displayed as deter- mined a character . He ...
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... fortune . He preferred to contingencies dependent on the stars a solid alliance with Lord Keeper Coventry . He was accepted as suitor for the hand of one of the great man's daughters . The " unswerving prudence of the lady " caused her ...
... fortune . He preferred to contingencies dependent on the stars a solid alliance with Lord Keeper Coventry . He was accepted as suitor for the hand of one of the great man's daughters . The " unswerving prudence of the lady " caused her ...
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... fortune - telling , and the knowledge of family secrets which he derived from the cleverness of a favourite servant . But chancing to visit Tewkesbury , he won the hearts of the bailiffs of the town by an encounter of wits , in which ...
... fortune - telling , and the knowledge of family secrets which he derived from the cleverness of a favourite servant . But chancing to visit Tewkesbury , he won the hearts of the bailiffs of the town by an encounter of wits , in which ...
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... fortunes ; to them we are to stand bare , whilst these pageant lordships deign to give us a conference on their breeches . . . . I say not this to revile any man with his meanness . . . . I remind you of their quality , because they ...
... fortunes ; to them we are to stand bare , whilst these pageant lordships deign to give us a conference on their breeches . . . . I say not this to revile any man with his meanness . . . . I remind you of their quality , because they ...
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Seite 259 - House approved the nomination, and provided the goods for the present, though they did not much like treating out of the provinces ; and we met the other commissioners at Albany about the middle of June. In our way thither, I projected and drew a plan for the union of all the colonies under one government, so far as might be necessary for defence and other important general purposes.
Seite 240 - A patriot, sir ! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms ! I could raise fifty of them within the four-and-twenty hours. I have raised many of them in one night. It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.
Seite 282 - 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.
Seite 281 - 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 297 - Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves ; but I give it fair quarter wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others...
Seite 298 - I have never entered into any controversy in defence of my philosophical opinions. I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them ; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected.
Seite 30 - His house was perfectly of the old fashion, in the midst of a large park well stocked with deer, and near the house rabbits to serve his kitchen, many...
Seite 273 - A variety of others have been made since of different sizes ; some to be set in the lids of snuffboxes, and some so small as to be worn in rings ; and the numbers sold are incredible. These, with the pictures, busts, and prints, (of which copies upon copies are spread everywhere,) have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon...
Seite 284 - Some books against 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 289 - I reflected on it, has induced me sometimes to say, that were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.