Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, Band 1Mason Brothers, 1864 - 710 Seiten |
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... continued it to his fifty - first year , when he had arrived in England as agent for Pennsylvania . He had both leisure and strength to complete the work , but , as he approached the time of his more conspicuous public life , his ...
... continued it to his fifty - first year , when he had arrived in England as agent for Pennsylvania . He had both leisure and strength to complete the work , but , as he approached the time of his more conspicuous public life , his ...
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... editor .... 218 CHAPTER V. Poor Richard , and other publications ... 227 CHAPTER VI . Self - Education continued .. 240 CHAPTER VIL The thriving and public - spirited citizen 257 PAGE 271 277 802 825 835 857 867 881 888 1 *
... editor .... 218 CHAPTER V. Poor Richard , and other publications ... 227 CHAPTER VI . Self - Education continued .. 240 CHAPTER VIL The thriving and public - spirited citizen 257 PAGE 271 277 802 825 835 857 867 881 888 1 *
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... continued ... CHAPTER VI . Private life and studies ... CHAPTER VII . Franklin's English friends .. CHAPTER VIII . The Hutchinson letters CHAPTER IX . The privy council outrage APPENDIX . II . Franklin's pamphlet ... IV . The Craven ...
... continued ... CHAPTER VI . Private life and studies ... CHAPTER VII . Franklin's English friends .. CHAPTER VIII . The Hutchinson letters CHAPTER IX . The privy council outrage APPENDIX . II . Franklin's pamphlet ... IV . The Craven ...
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... continued until he was nine years old , would be noticeable if the boy were a blockhead ; how great its value to a young Franklin , large - brained , inquisitive , humorous ! It was much for him even to know that there was a good old ...
... continued until he was nine years old , would be noticeable if the boy were a blockhead ; how great its value to a young Franklin , large - brained , inquisitive , humorous ! It was much for him even to know that there was a good old ...
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... continued to assist his father for two years , notwith- standing his discontent , and his longing for the sea . Toward the end of the second year , John Franklin , an elder brother of Benja- min , who had , like himself , been taken to ...
... continued to assist his father for two years , notwith- standing his discontent , and his longing for the sea . Toward the end of the second year , John Franklin , an elder brother of Benja- min , who had , like himself , been taken to ...
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America Andrew Bradford appeared apprentice asked Assembly began Benjamin Franklin Boston brother called captain church colonies Cotton Mather Council Courant Deborah Read Ecton electricity England English father friends gave Gazette gentleman give Governor hand happy heard honor hundred Indians James James Franklin John John Adams Keimer kind king lady late learned letters lived London Lord Lord Bute Lord Loudoun ment mind ministers nature never newspaper observed occasion opinion pamphlet paper Parliament passage Penn Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Gazette person Peter Collinson Philadelphia pleasure Poor Richard pounds printed printer proprietaries province published Quakers Ralph received religion replied says Franklin sent shillings ship soon Stamp Act Street thing Thomas Whately thou thought thousand tion told town truth virtue Whately William William Penn writing wrote young
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Seite 47 - O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God : for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
Seite 242 - I enter'd upon the execution of this plan for selfexamination, and continu'd it with occasional intermissions for some time. I was surpris'd to find .myself so much fuller of faults than I had imagined ; but I had the satisfaction of seeing them diminish.
Seite 165 - 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 200 - I found it in a china bowl, with a spoon of silver! They had been bought for me without my knowledge by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum of threeand-twenty shillings, for which she had no other excuse or apology to make but that she thought her husband deserved a silver spoon and china bowl as well as any of his neighbors.
Seite 203 - The institution soon manifested its utility, was imitated by other towns, and in other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations ; reading became fashionable ; and our people, having no public...
Seite 240 - I grew convinced that truth, sincerity, and integrity, in dealings between man and man, were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life; and I formed written resolutions, which still remain in my journal book, to practice them ever while I lived.
Seite 173 - I seldom attended any public worship, I had still an opinion of its propriety, and of its utility when rightly conducted, and I regularly paid my annual subscription for the support of the only Presbyterian minister or meeting we had in Philadelphia. He...
Seite 418 - Were the face of the earth, he says, vacant of other plants, it might be gradually sowed and overspread with one kind only, as for instance with fennel; and were it empty of other inhabitants, it might in a few ages be replenished from one nation only, as for instance with Englishmen.
Seite 488 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white...
Seite 461 - But since it is down, my friend, and it may be long before it rises again, let us make as good a night of it as we can. We may still light candles. Frugality and industry will go a great way towards indemnifying us. Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments.