The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: With Notes and a Sketch of Franklin's Life from the Point where the Autobiography EndsHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1886 - 238 Seiten |
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... obtaining any little anecdotes of my ancestors . You may re- member the inquiries I made among the remains of my relations when you were with me in England , and the journey I undertook for that purpose . Imagining it may be equally ...
... obtaining any little anecdotes of my ancestors . You may re- member the inquiries I made among the remains of my relations when you were with me in England , and the journey I undertook for that purpose . Imagining it may be equally ...
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... obtain , reasons that he gave to his friends in my hearing , altered his first intention , took me from the grammar - school , and sent me to a school for writing and arithmetic , kept by a then famous man , Mr. George Brownell , very ...
... obtain , reasons that he gave to his friends in my hearing , altered his first intention , took me from the grammar - school , and sent me to a school for writing and arithmetic , kept by a then famous man , Mr. George Brownell , very ...
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... obtaining victories that neither myself nor my cause always de- served . I continued this method some few years , but gradually left it , retaining only the habit of expressing myself in terms of modest diffidence ; never using , when I ...
... obtaining victories that neither myself nor my cause always de- served . I continued this method some few years , but gradually left it , retaining only the habit of expressing myself in terms of modest diffidence ; never using , when I ...
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... obtain so advantageous a character from a person of such note where I had resided , and that I had been so industrious and careful as to equip myself so hand- somely in so short a time ; therefore , seeing no přos- pect of an ...
... obtain so advantageous a character from a person of such note where I had resided , and that I had been so industrious and careful as to equip myself so hand- somely in so short a time ; therefore , seeing no přos- pect of an ...
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... obtain goods to sell on commission ; but I found afterwards , that , through some discontent with his wife's relations , he purposed to leave her on their hands , and never return again . Having taken leave of my friends , and ...
... obtain goods to sell on commission ; but I found afterwards , that , through some discontent with his wife's relations , he purposed to leave her on their hands , and never return again . Having taken leave of my friends , and ...
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Seite 22 - I had gone on making verses ; since the continual occasion for words of the 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 103 - INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employed in something useful ; cut off all unnecessary actions.
Seite 25 - I should think it so or so, for such and such reasons," or "I imagine it to be so," or "It is so if I am not mistaken." This habit, I believe, has been of great advantage to me when I have had occasion to inculcate my opinions and persuade men into measures that I have been from time to time engaged in promoting.
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 90 - ... to show that I was not above my business, I sometimes brought home the paper I purchased at the stores thro' the streets on a wheelbarrow.
Seite 98 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Seite 20 - In a little time I made great proficiency in the business, and became a useful hand to my brother. I now had access to better books. An acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers enabled me sometimes to borrow a small one, which I was careful to return soon and clean. Often I sat up in my...
Seite 109 - And I believe this may have been the case with many, who, having, for want of some such means as I employed, found the difficulty of obtaining good and breaking bad habits in other points of vice and virtue, have given up the struggle, and concluded that "a speckled...
Seite 20 - Often I sat up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.