Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, Band 1Mason Brothers, 1864 - 710 Seiten |
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... nature seems sometimes to make an essay of her powers with that material , before producing the consummate specimen . There was a remarkable Mr. Pitt before Lord Chatham ; there was an extraordinary Mr. Fox before the day of the ablest ...
... nature seems sometimes to make an essay of her powers with that material , before producing the consummate specimen . There was a remarkable Mr. Pitt before Lord Chatham ; there was an extraordinary Mr. Fox before the day of the ablest ...
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... nature , he applied himself to learn the business , and he soon became useful to his brother . The printing office stood on the spot which is now the corner of Franklin Avenue and Court Street . When a great personage retires from an ...
... nature , he applied himself to learn the business , and he soon became useful to his brother . The printing office stood on the spot which is now the corner of Franklin Avenue and Court Street . When a great personage retires from an ...
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... nature . Franklin maintained the con- trary opinion . He , probably , derived his impressions on that sub- ject from his early favorite , Defoe , who was earnest for the educa- tion of girls . " We reproach the sex every day , " says ...
... nature . Franklin maintained the con- trary opinion . He , probably , derived his impressions on that sub- ject from his early favorite , Defoe , who was earnest for the educa- tion of girls . " We reproach the sex every day , " says ...
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... nature of an editorial , except the prospectus . One paragraph arrests the eye of every one that glances over the contents of this sheet : " We have News here that K. William is safe arrived in Ireland , and is marched with one hundred ...
... nature of an editorial , except the prospectus . One paragraph arrests the eye of every one that glances over the contents of this sheet : " We have News here that K. William is safe arrived in Ireland , and is marched with one hundred ...
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... nature , he passed upon the prisoner this sentence : He was " Annals of Salem , " p . 14 ; " N. Y. Historical Magazine , " vol . i . , No. 8 ; Buckingham's " Speci mens of Newspaper Literature , " i . The " N. Y. Historical Magazine ...
... nature , he passed upon the prisoner this sentence : He was " Annals of Salem , " p . 14 ; " N. Y. Historical Magazine , " vol . i . , No. 8 ; Buckingham's " Speci mens of Newspaper Literature , " i . The " N. Y. Historical Magazine ...
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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.