The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and a Sketch of Franklin's Life from the Point where the Autobiography EndsHoughton, Mifflin, 1896 - 253 Seiten |
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... brother James's printing - office . 1707 The French and Spanish invade Carolina and are repulsed . Union of England and Scotland under the name of Great Britain . 1708 Birth of William Pitt ( the elder ) . 1710 Port Royal captured by an ...
... brother James's printing - office . 1707 The French and Spanish invade Carolina and are repulsed . Union of England and Scotland under the name of Great Britain . 1708 Birth of William Pitt ( the elder ) . 1710 Port Royal captured by an ...
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... brother John , who was bred to that business , having left my father , married , and set up for himself at Rhode Island , there was all appear- ance that I was destined to supply his place , and be- come a tallow - chandler . But my ...
... brother John , who was bred to that business , having left my father , married , and set up for himself at Rhode Island , there was all appear- ance that I was destined to supply his place , and be- come a tallow - chandler . But my ...
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... brother James returned from England with a press and letters 1 to set up his business in Boston . I liked it much better than that of my father , but still had a hankering for the sea . To prevent the apprehended effect of such an ...
... brother James returned from England with a press and letters 1 to set up his business in Boston . I liked it much better than that of my father , but still had a hankering for the sea . To prevent the apprehended effect of such an ...
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... brother . I now had access to better books . An acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers enabled me sometimes to borrow a small one , which I was careful to return soon and clean . Often I sat up in my room reading the greatest ...
... brother . I now had access to better books . An acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers enabled me sometimes to borrow a small one , which I was careful to return soon and clean . Often I sat up in my room reading the greatest ...
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... brother , being yet unmarried , did not keep house , but boarded himself and his apprentices in another fam- ily . My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconven- iency , and I was frequently chid for my singularity . I made myself ...
... brother , being yet unmarried , did not keep house , but boarded himself and his apprentices in another fam- ily . My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconven- iency , and I was frequently chid for my singularity . I made myself ...
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Seite 237 - 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 101 - Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4. RESOLUTION. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. 5. FRUGALITY. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; ie waste nothing. 6. INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employed in something useful ; cut off all unnecessary actions.
Seite 15 - They maintained a large family comfortably, and brought up thirteen children ! and seven grandchildren reputably. From this instance, reader, Be encouraged to diligence in thy calling, And distrust not Providence. He was a pious and prudent man; She, a discreet and virtuous woman.
Seite 34 - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.
Seite 20 - 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 102 - My intention being to acquire the habitude of all these virtues, I judged it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at once but to fix it on one of them at a time, and when I should be master of that, then to proceed to another, and so on till I should have gone thro
Seite 111 - I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction to the sentiments of others, and all positive assertion of my own. I even forbid myself, agreeably to the old laws of our Junto, the use of every word or expression in the language that imported a fixed opinion, such as certainly...
Seite 244 - But the work shall not be lost For it will [as he believed] appear once more In a new and more elegant edition Revised and corrected by The Author.
Seite 21 - ... same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales and turned them into verse; and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again.
Seite 19 - I escaped being a poet, most probably a very bad one ; but as prose writing has been of great use to me in the course of my life, and was a principal means of my advancement, I shall tell you how, in such a situation, I acquired what little ability I have in that way.