The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1888 - 192 Seiten |
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... carrying the narrative down to 1757. He intended to go on from this point , and set down the heads of what he meant to write , but the in- firmities of his growing age forbade him . In consequence of these several beginnings , the au ...
... carrying the narrative down to 1757. He intended to go on from this point , and set down the heads of what he meant to write , but the in- firmities of his growing age forbade him . In consequence of these several beginnings , the au ...
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... carried his wife with three children into New England , about 1682. The conventicles having been forbidden by law , and frequently disturbed , induced some consider able men of his acquaintance to remove to that coun- try , and he was ...
... carried his wife with three children into New England , about 1682. The conventicles having been forbidden by law , and frequently disturbed , induced some consider able men of his acquaintance to remove to that coun- try , and he was ...
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... carry the papers through the streets to the customers . He had some ingenious men among his friends , who amused themselves by writing little pieces for this paper , which gained it credit and made it more in de- mand , and these ...
... carry the papers through the streets to the customers . He had some ingenious men among his friends , who amused themselves by writing little pieces for this paper , which gained it credit and made it more in de- mand , and these ...
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... carry me the rest of the way to Philadelphia . It rained very hard all the day ; I was thoroughly soaked , and by noon a good deal tired ; so I stopped at a poor inn , where I stayed all night , beginning now to wish that I had never ...
... carry me the rest of the way to Philadelphia . It rained very hard all the day ; I was thoroughly soaked , and by noon a good deal tired ; so I stopped at a poor inn , where I stayed all night , beginning now to wish that I had never ...
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... carry him thither . He left me then , prom- ising to remit me the first money he should receive in order to discharge the debt ; but I never heard of him after . The breaking into this money of Vernon's was one of the first great errata ...
... carry him thither . He left me then , prom- ising to remit me the first money he should receive in order to discharge the debt ; but I never heard of him after . The breaking into this money of Vernon's was one of the first great errata ...
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Seite 231 - 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 106 - 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 36 - 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 22 - 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 238 - 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 104 - 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 26 - My brother had, in 1720 or 1721, begun to print a newspaper. It was the second that appeared in America, and was called the New England Courant. The only one before it was the Boston...
Seite 23 - ... 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 98 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Seite 31 - My son at Philadelphia has lately lost his principal hand, Aquila Rose, by death; if you go thither, I believe he may employ you." Philadelphia was one hundred miles further; I set out, however, in a boat for Amboy, leaving my chest and things to follow me round by sea. In crossing the bay, we met with a squall that tore our rotten sails to pieces, prevented our getting into the Kill, and drove us upon Long Island.