The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. (Complete)E. Maynard & Company, 1892 - 192 Seiten |
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... afterwards able to 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 ...
... afterwards able to 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 ...
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... afterward sold them to enable me to buy R. Burton's Historical Collections ; they were small chapmen's books , and cheap , 40 or 50 in all . My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity , most of which I ...
... afterward sold them to enable me to buy R. Burton's Historical Collections ; they were small chapmen's books , and cheap , 40 or 50 in all . My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity , most of which I ...
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... afterwards with the original , I discovered many faults and amended them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that , in certain particulars of small import , I had been lucky enough to im- prove the method or the language ...
... afterwards with the original , I discovered many faults and amended them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that , in certain particulars of small import , I had been lucky enough to im- prove the method or the language ...
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... afterward found , a good deal of the knave in his composition . He did not like my lodging at Bradford's while I worked with him . He had a house , in- deed , but without furniture , so he could not lodge me ; but he got me a lodging at ...
... afterward found , a good deal of the knave in his composition . He did not like my lodging at Bradford's while I worked with him . He had a house , in- deed , but without furniture , so he could not lodge me ; but he got me a lodging at ...
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... afterwards told me in Boston , but I knew as yet noth- ing of it ; when , one day , Keimer and I being at work together near the window , we saw the governor and another gentleman ( which proved to be Colonel French , of Newcastle ) ...
... afterwards told me in Boston , but I knew as yet noth- ing of it ; when , one day , Keimer and I being at work together near the window , we saw the governor and another gentleman ( which proved to be Colonel French , of Newcastle ) ...
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Seite 18 - It appears to me, or / should not think it, so or so, for such and such reasons; or, / 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 19 - Men should be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot ; " further recommending to us "To speak, tho' sure, with seeming diffidence.
Seite 15 - 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 82 - I determined to give a week's strict attention to each of the virtues successively. Thus, in the first week, my great guard was to avoid every the least offence against Temperance, leaving the other virtues to their ordinary chance, only marking every evening the faults of the day. Thus, if in the first week I could keep my first line, marked T, clear of spots, I...
Seite 83 - I made in virtue, by clearing successively my lines of their spots, till in the end, by a number of courses, I should be happy in viewing a clean book, after a thirteen weeks
Seite 104 - The request was fortunately made to perhaps the only man in the company who had the firmness not to be affected by the preacher. His answer was, "At any other time, friend Hopkinson, I would lend to thee freely ; but not now, for thee seems to be out of thy right senses.
Seite 4 - I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
Seite 25 - ... the shore, got into a creek, landed near an old fence, with the rails of which we made a fire, the night being cold, in October, and there we remained till daylight. Then one of the company knew the place to be Cooper's Creek, a little above Philadelphia, which we saw as soon as we got out of the creek, and arrived there about eight or nine o'clock on the Sunday morning, and landed at the Market Street wharf.
Seite 18 - I took a delight in it, practised it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not foresee, entangling them in difficulties out of which they could not extricate themselves, and so obtaining victories that neither myself nor my cause always deserved.
Seite 76 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...