Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinJ. B. Lippincott & Company, 1869 - 409 Seiten |
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... kind of a man my 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 ...
... kind of a man my 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 ...
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... kind letter of September 5th , inform- ing me of the intention Mr. Dilly has of printing a new edition of my writings , and of his desire that I would furnish him with such additions as I may think proper . At present all my papers and ...
... kind letter of September 5th , inform- ing me of the intention Mr. Dilly has of printing a new edition of my writings , and of his desire that I would furnish him with such additions as I may think proper . At present all my papers and ...
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... kind letter of March 4th , and wish I may be able to complete what you so earnestly desire— the Memoirs of my life . But of late I am so interrupted by extreme pain , which obliges me to have recourse to opium , that , between the ...
... kind letter of March 4th , and wish I may be able to complete what you so earnestly desire— the Memoirs of my life . But of late I am so interrupted by extreme pain , which obliges me to have recourse to opium , that , between the ...
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... an orator , but a master of practical life — a man to whom the world belongs . Neither imagine you have to do with a vulgar , worldly wisdom . This amiable mocker , who laughs at everything , is not the less kind - hearted , 56.
... an orator , but a master of practical life — a man to whom the world belongs . Neither imagine you have to do with a vulgar , worldly wisdom . This amiable mocker , who laughs at everything , is not the less kind - hearted , 56.
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Benjamin Franklin John Bigelow. everything , is not the less kind - hearted , a devoted patriot , and one of the sincerest friends of humanity . His laugh is not that of Voltaire ; there is no bitterness in it ; it is the benevolent ...
Benjamin Franklin John Bigelow. everything , is not the less kind - hearted , a devoted patriot , and one of the sincerest friends of humanity . His laugh is not that of Voltaire ; there is no bitterness in it ; it is the benevolent ...
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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.