The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinAmerican book Company, 1896 - 206 Seiten |
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... seemed to me , afford time to practice it . When about sixteen years of age I happened to meet with a book , written by one Tryon , recommending a vegetable diet . determined to go into it . My brother , being BENJAMIN FRANKLIN . 29.
... seemed to me , afford time to practice it . When about sixteen years of age I happened to meet with a book , written by one Tryon , recommending a vegetable diet . determined to go into it . My brother , being BENJAMIN FRANKLIN . 29.
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... seemed to be suspected from my youth and appearance that I might be some runaway . After dinner my sleepiness returned ; and , being shown to a bed , I lay down without undressing and slept till six in the even- ing , was called to ...
... seemed to be suspected from my youth and appearance that I might be some runaway . After dinner my sleepiness returned ; and , being shown to a bed , I lay down without undressing and slept till six in the even- ing , was called to ...
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... seemed surprised when he was told my age . He said I appeared a young man of prom- ising parts , and therefore should be encouraged ; the printers at Philadelphia were wretched ones ; and , if I would set up there , he made no doubt I ...
... seemed surprised when he was told my age . He said I appeared a young man of prom- ising parts , and therefore should be encouraged ; the printers at Philadelphia were wretched ones ; and , if I would set up there , he made no doubt I ...
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... seemed at first not to think so ill of them as she did , she mentioned some things she had observed and heard that had escaped my notice , but now convinced me she was right . I thanked her for her kind advice , and promised to follow ...
... seemed at first not to think so ill of them as she did , she mentioned some things she had observed and heard that had escaped my notice , but now convinced me she was right . I thanked her for her kind advice , and promised to follow ...
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... seemed to promise making a good fig- ure in life . But , during my absence , he had acquired a habit of sotting with brandy ; and I found , by his own account , and what I heard from others , that he had been drunk every day since his ...
... seemed to promise making a good fig- ure in life . But , during my absence , he had acquired a habit of sotting with brandy ; and I found , by his own account , and what I heard from others , that he had been drunk every day since his ...
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Seite 29 - By comparing my work afterwards with the original, 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 extreamly ambitious.
Seite 109 - I therefore filled all the little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue, it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly ; as. to use here one of those proverbs, ' It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.
Seite 200 - Industry all easy, as Poor Richard says; and He that riseth late must trot all Day, and shall scarce overtake his Business at Night; while Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him...
Seite 12 - 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 201 - The cat in gloves catches no mice! as Poor Richard says. 'Tis true there is much to be done, and perhaps you are weak-handed; but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects; for Constant dropping wears away stones; and By diligence and patience the mouse ate in two the cable; and Little strokes fell great oaks...
Seite 13 - 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 28 - I thought the writing excellent, and wished if possible to imitate it. With this view I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete 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...
Seite 201 - But with our Industry, we must likewise be steady, settled and careful, and oversee our own Affairs with our own Eyes, and not trust too much to others; for, as Poor Richard says I never saw an oft-removed Tree, Nor yet an oft-removed Family, That throve so well as those that settled be.
Seite 85 - ... to show that I was not above my business, I sometimes brought home the paper I purchased at the stores thro' the streets on a wheelbarrow.
Seite 98 - I cross'd these columns with thirteen red lines, marking the beginning of each line with the first letter of one of the virtues, on which line, and in its proper column...