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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... seemed to call for explanation or illustration , but no words have been explained which could be understood by reference to a good dictionary . At the close of the autobiography will be found a sketch of Franklin's life , from the point ...
... seemed to call for explanation or illustration , but no words have been explained which could be understood by reference to a good dictionary . At the close of the autobiography will be found a sketch of Franklin's life , from the point ...
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... seemed to me , afford time to prac- tice it . When about sixteen years of age I happened to meet with a book , written by one Tryon , recommend- ing a vegetable diet . I determined to go into it . My brother , being yet unmarried , did ...
... seemed to me , afford time to prac- tice it . When about sixteen years of age I happened to meet with a book , written by one Tryon , recommend- ing a vegetable diet . I determined to go into it . My brother , being yet unmarried , did ...
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... dinner ; and while I was eating it , sev- eral sly questions were asked me , as it seemed to be 1 This stood on the southwest corner of Second and Market streets . suspected from my youth and appearance that I might be 36 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF.
... dinner ; and while I was eating it , sev- eral sly questions were asked me , as it seemed to be 1 This stood on the southwest corner of Second and Market streets . suspected from my youth and appearance that I might be 36 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF.
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... seemed surprised when he was told my age . He said I appeared a young man of promising 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 promising 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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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.