The Life of Benjamin Franklin: With Many Choice Anecdotes and Admirable Sayings of this Great Man, Never Before Published by Any of His BiographersH. C. Carey & I. Lea, 1822 - 264 Seiten |
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... night had spread her dark curtains around them , they fell to work with the activity of young beavers , and by midnight had completed their wharf The next morning the masons came to work ; but , behold ! not a stone was to be found ...
... night had spread her dark curtains around them , they fell to work with the activity of young beavers , and by midnight had completed their wharf The next morning the masons came to work ; but , behold ! not a stone was to be found ...
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... nights for the higher pleasure of holding an argument with him . This was a great trial to his sisters , who would often intreat their mother to make Ben hold his tongue , that their father might take down his fiddle , and play and sing ...
... nights for the higher pleasure of holding an argument with him . This was a great trial to his sisters , who would often intreat their mother to make Ben hold his tongue , that their father might take down his fiddle , and play and sing ...
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... night to her husband , as he lay sleepless and sighing on his son's account , " why do we make ourselves so unhappy about Ben for fear he should go to sea ! let him but go to school , and I'll engage we hear no more about his run- ning ...
... night to her husband , as he lay sleepless and sighing on his son's account , " why do we make ourselves so unhappy about Ben for fear he should go to sea ! let him but go to school , and I'll engage we hear no more about his run- ning ...
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... night . After this he fell upon his fa- ther's library . This being made up principally of old puritanical divinity , would to most boys have appeared like the pillars of Hercules to travellers of old — a bound not to be passed . But so ...
... night . After this he fell upon his fa- ther's library . This being made up principally of old puritanical divinity , would to most boys have appeared like the pillars of Hercules to travellers of old — a bound not to be passed . But so ...
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... not themselves believe . He gives the following as a case in point . One night , Adams being absent , and only himself and Collins together in the old school house , Ben observed that he thought it a great pity that the young 24 THE LIFE ...
... not themselves believe . He gives the following as a case in point . One night , Adams being absent , and only himself and Collins together in the old school house , Ben observed that he thought it a great pity that the young 24 THE LIFE ...
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Seite 152 - You call them goods; but if you do not take care they will prove evils to some of you. You expect they will be sold cheap, and perhaps they may for less than they cost; but if you have no occasion for them they must be dear to you. Remember what Poor Richard says: Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries.
Seite 149 - Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears ; while the used key is always bright, as Poor Richard says. But dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is the stuff" life is made of, as Poor Richard says. How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep ! forgetting, that The sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping etwugh in the grave, as Poor Richard says.
Seite 150 - Industry all easy, as Poor Richard says; and He that riseth late must trot all Day, and shall scarce overtake his Business at Night; while Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him...
Seite 151 - Methinks I hear some of you say, Must a Man afford himself no Leisure ? I will tell thee, my friend, what Poor Richard says, Employ thy Time well, if thou meanest to gain Leisure; and, since thou art not sure of a Minute, throw not away an hour.
Seite 152 - So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality, if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, ' keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will;' and " ' Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting. And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting/ 'If you would be wealthy,...
Seite 152 - What maintains one vice would bring up two children. You may think, perhaps, that a little tea, or a little punch now and then, diet a little more costly, clothes a little finer, and a little entertainment now and then, can be no great matter; but remember, Many a little makes a mickle.
Seite 152 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail.
Seite 150 - Richard likewise observes, he that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor; but then the trade must be worked at, and the calling well followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. If we are industrious we shall never starve; for as Poor Richard says, at the working man's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter.
Seite 149 - ... commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an abatement. However, let us hearken to good advice, and something may be done for us ; God helps them that help themselves, as Poor Richard says.
Seite 241 - For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their pas,sions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views.