Memoirs of the Life & Writings of Benjamin FranklinDent, 1927 - 314 Seiten |
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... sent it to his son not long after , and thought no more about it . And , indeed , he soon had plenty to think about ; for the difficult and troublous course of the public business with which he was presently 1 The edition of 1905 issued ...
... sent it to his son not long after , and thought no more about it . And , indeed , he soon had plenty to think about ; for the difficult and troublous course of the public business with which he was presently 1 The edition of 1905 issued ...
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... sent to him . Another copy was sent about the same time to Benjamin Vaughan , but what became of it is unknown . Franklin died in the following April , and the bulk of his books , papers , and manuscripts , including the Autobiography ...
... sent to him . Another copy was sent about the same time to Benjamin Vaughan , but what became of it is unknown . Franklin died in the following April , and the bulk of his books , papers , and manuscripts , including the Autobiography ...
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... sent to M. le Veillard by Franklin in September 1789 , but Franklin's own original copy in his own hand- writing , with all his own corrections , erasures , and marginal comments . These additaments — the use of a Lamb word is ...
... sent to M. le Veillard by Franklin in September 1789 , but Franklin's own original copy in his own hand- writing , with all his own corrections , erasures , and marginal comments . These additaments — the use of a Lamb word is ...
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... sent to Le Veillard in September 1789 , he had then brought the story down to June 1757 , and considered that he had now done all he would ever be able to do to it . But we also know that in November he had another rally of courage or ...
... sent to Le Veillard in September 1789 , he had then brought the story down to June 1757 , and considered that he had now done all he would ever be able to do to it . But we also know that in November he had another rally of courage or ...
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... sent me . Present Royal Society , and Speech of President . Denny's Arrival and Courtship to me . His character . My service to the Army in the affair of Quarters . Disputes about the Proprietor's Taxes continued . Project for paving ...
... sent me . Present Royal Society , and Speech of President . Denny's Arrival and Courtship to me . His character . My service to the Army in the affair of Quarters . Disputes about the Proprietor's Taxes continued . Project for paving ...
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Seite 97 - I was now and then prevail'd on to do so, once for five Sundays successively. Had he been in my opinion a good preacher, perhaps I might have continued, notwithstanding the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study ; but his discourses were chiefly either polemic arguments, or explications of the peculiar doctrines of our sect, and were all to me very dry, uninteresting, and unedifying, since not a single moral principle was inculcated or enforc'd, their aim seeming to be rather...
Seite ii - TRAVEL * SCIENCE * FICTION THEOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY HISTORY * CLASSICAL FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ESSAYS * ORATORY POETRY & DRAMA BIOGRAPHY REFERENCE ROMANCE IN FOUR STYLES OF BINDING: CLOTH, FLAT BACK, COLOURED TOP; LEATHER, ROUND CORNERS, GILT TOP; LIBRARY BINDING IN CLOTH, & QUARTER PIGSKIN LONDON: JM DENT & SONS, LTD.
Seite 103 - 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 95 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Seite 114 - I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, makes the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.
Seite 104 - Father of light and life ! thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ! teach me Thyself ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Seite 22 - For, if you would inform, a positive and dogmatical manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly...
Seite 25 - ... secrets. During my brother's confinement, which I resented a good deal, notwithstanding our private differences, I had the management of the paper; and I made bold to give our rulers some rubs in it, which my brother took very kindly, while others began to consider me in an unfavorable light, as a young genius that had a turn for libelling and satyr.
Seite 30 - Second-street, and ask'd for bisket, intending such as we had in Boston; but they, it seems, were not made in Philadelphia. Then I asked for a three-penny loaf, and was told they had none such. So not considering or knowing the difference of money, and the greater cheapness nor the names of his bread, I bade him give me three-penny worth of any sort. He gave me, accordingly, three great puffy rolls. I was...
Seite 17 - I now took a fancy to poetry, and made some little pieces ; my brother, thinking it might turn to account, encouraged me, and put me on composing occasional ballads. One was called The Lighthouse Tragedy...