Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinJ. B. Lippincott & Company, 1869 - 409 Seiten |
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... father served an apprenticeship . There my uncle died and lies buried . ( From the Autograph , p . 1. ) Imagining it may be equally agreeable to you to know the cir- cumstances of my life , many of which you are yet unacquainted with ...
... father served an apprenticeship . There my uncle died and lies buried . ( From the Autograph , p . 1. ) Imagining it may be equally agreeable to you to know the cir- cumstances of my life , many of which you are yet unacquainted with ...
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... father was . He had an excellent constitution , and was of a middle stature , well set , and very strong ; he could draw prettily , and was a little skilled in music ; his voice was son- orous and agreeable so that when he played on his ...
... father was . He had an excellent constitution , and was of a middle stature , well set , and very strong ; he could draw prettily , and was a little skilled in music ; his voice was son- orous and agreeable so that when he played on his ...
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... father used to exact from me when I was under his care and which I still con- tinued to consider as a duty , though I could not afford time to practice it . ( Edition of 1817 , P . 21. ) He agreed with the captain of a New York sloop to ...
... father used to exact from me when I was under his care and which I still con- tinued to consider as a duty , though I could not afford time to practice it . ( Edition of 1817 , P . 21. ) He agreed with the captain of a New York sloop to ...
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... father now calls himself a free man , and I believe it would be difficult to induce him to change his condition . No one could more enjoy his liberty and repose . He is now occupied in writing the continuation of his life , which you ...
... father now calls himself a free man , and I believe it would be difficult to induce him to change his condition . No one could more enjoy his liberty and repose . He is now occupied in writing the continuation of his life , which you ...
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... father's papers , which were left in the greatest disorder ; whether I am able to complete this or not , I shall certainly leave London for Paris in the course of a fortnight . But my wish is , if possible , to finish this , and my ...
... father's papers , which were left in the greatest disorder ; whether I am able to complete this or not , I shall certainly leave London for Paris in the course of a fortnight . But my wish is , if possible , to finish this , and my ...
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Seite 100 - I took a delight in it, practis'd 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 113 - Street wharf, near the boat I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water; and being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther.
Seite 209 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Seite 91 - To return : I continued thus employed in my father's business for two years, that is, till I was twelve years old ; and my brother John, who was bred to that business...
Seite 99 - While I was intent on improving my language, I met with an English Grammar (I think it was Greenwood's), at the end of which there were two little sketches of the arts of rhetoric and logic, the latter finishing with a specimen of a dispute in the Socratic method ; and soon after I procured Xenophon's Memorable Things of Socrates, wherein there are many instances of the same method.
Seite 274 - I declined it from a principle which has ever weighed with me on such occasions; viz., that as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.
Seite 112 - Second-street, and ask'd for bisket, intending such as we had in Boston ; but they, it seems, were not made in Philadelphia. Then I asked for a three-penny loaf, and was told they had none such. So not considering or knowing the difference of money, and the greater cheapness nor the names of his bread, I bade him give me three-penny worth of any sort. He gave me, accordingly, three great puffy rolls. I was...
Seite 85 - My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.
Seite 105 - ... differences, I had the management of the paper; and I made bold to give our rulers some rubs in it, which my brother took very kindly, while others began to consider me in an unfavorable light, as a young genius that had a turn for libelling and satyr. My brother's discharge was accompany'd with an order of the House (a very odd one), that "James Franklin should no longer print the paper called the New England Courant.
Seite 102 - I remember his being dissuaded by some of his friends from the undertaking, as not likely to succeed, one newspaper being in their judgment enough for America.