Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, Band 1Mason Brothers, 1864 - 710 Seiten |
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... once in the town records of Boston , under the date of April 27 , 1691 , when the town granted him liberty to erect a building eight feet square , near the South Meeting - House . Tradesmen were accustomed then to designate their places ...
... once in the town records of Boston , under the date of April 27 , 1691 , when the town granted him liberty to erect a building eight feet square , near the South Meeting - House . Tradesmen were accustomed then to designate their places ...
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... theological ; but even these the boy contrived to read . Plu- Allibone's " Dictionary of Authors , " p . 307 . tarch's Lives , so popular once among young people , 44 LIFE AND TIMES OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN . [ 1718 , CHAPTER IV First books.
... theological ; but even these the boy contrived to read . Plu- Allibone's " Dictionary of Authors , " p . 307 . tarch's Lives , so popular once among young people , 44 LIFE AND TIMES OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN . [ 1718 , CHAPTER IV First books.
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James Parton. tarch's Lives , so popular once among young people , he read over and over again . Robinson Crusoe he just missed - for it was not published till 1719 , when it appeared in a London periodical . But Defoe's Essay upon ...
James Parton. tarch's Lives , so popular once among young people , he read over and over again . Robinson Crusoe he just missed - for it was not published till 1719 , when it appeared in a London periodical . But Defoe's Essay upon ...
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... once a week , sent to sea some kind of craft nearly every day , and the Long Wharf was out eight hundred feet into the har- bor . No doubt the boy was upon the wharf when Admiral Walker anchored in the bay his great fleet of fifteen men ...
... once a week , sent to sea some kind of craft nearly every day , and the Long Wharf was out eight hundred feet into the har- bor . No doubt the boy was upon the wharf when Admiral Walker anchored in the bay his great fleet of fifteen men ...
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... once heard preach , old Increase Mather , the father of Cotton , and heard him , in the course of his sermon , refer to the death " of that wicked old perse- cutor of God's people , Louis XIV . " There , too , he frequently heard Cotton ...
... once heard preach , old Increase Mather , the father of Cotton , and heard him , in the course of his sermon , refer to the death " of that wicked old perse- cutor of God's people , Louis XIV . " There , too , he frequently heard Cotton ...
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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.