The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author, Band 2Childs & Peterson, 1840 |
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... become truly virtuous and magnanimous , -Help me , good God ; help me , O Father ! And , forasmuch as ingratitude is one of the most odious of vices , let me not be unmindful gratefully to acknowledge the favors I receive from Heaven ...
... become truly virtuous and magnanimous , -Help me , good God ; help me , O Father ! And , forasmuch as ingratitude is one of the most odious of vices , let me not be unmindful gratefully to acknowledge the favors I receive from Heaven ...
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... becoming so . That laudable ambition is too commonly misap- plied , and often ill employed . Some , to make them- selves ... become really great by being good , and the number of valuable men would be much increased ; but it is a grand ...
... becoming so . That laudable ambition is too commonly misap- plied , and often ill employed . Some , to make them- selves ... become really great by being good , and the number of valuable men would be much increased ; but it is a grand ...
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... become detestable ; be- cause , in such a case , as is justly observed , the pleas- ure arising from a tale of wit and novelty soon dies away in generous and honest minds , and is followed with a secret grief to see their neighbours ...
... become detestable ; be- cause , in such a case , as is justly observed , the pleas- ure arising from a tale of wit and novelty soon dies away in generous and honest minds , and is followed with a secret grief to see their neighbours ...
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... become natural , are apt to break their banks . If one servant is more valuable than another , has he not more merit than the other ? and yet this is not on account of superior self - denial . Is a patriot not praiseworthy , if public ...
... become natural , are apt to break their banks . If one servant is more valuable than another , has he not more merit than the other ? and yet this is not on account of superior self - denial . Is a patriot not praiseworthy , if public ...
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... become the care of great men , and labored in by the potentates of the world , viz . emperors , kings , princes , & c . Mathematical demonstrations are a logic of as much or more use , than that commonly learned at schools , serving to ...
... become the care of great men , and labored in by the potentates of the world , viz . emperors , kings , princes , & c . Mathematical demonstrations are a logic of as much or more use , than that commonly learned at schools , serving to ...
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Abbé Morellet advantage America better bills Britain called coin colonies commerce common consequently considered corn currency debts employed endeavour England English school Europe expense exportation favor foreign Franklin friends gentlemen give Glaucon gold and silver GOUT happiness Helvetius horse hundred increase industry inhabitants judges kind King king's counsel Kinnersley labor land learned legal tender less libel liberty live Madame Helvétius mankind manner manufactures marriages master means ment merchants mind Montrésor nation nature necessary neighbours never obliged observed occasion opinion paid paper money PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE perhaps persons Philocles pleasure plenty Poor Richard says POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC pounds present principles procure produce profit province quantity readers reason receive ruin Samuel Romilly shillings slavery Socrates subsistence thee things thou thought tion trade trustees virtue wages whole writing