Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinJ. B. Lippincott & Company, 1869 - 409 Seiten |
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... be- coming general , perhaps with some corrections . As to your friend's taking a share in the management of it ; his * Sparks ' Works of Franklin , vol . x . p . 345 . age and infirmities render him unfit for the business , 21.
... be- coming general , perhaps with some corrections . As to your friend's taking a share in the management of it ; his * Sparks ' Works of Franklin , vol . x . p . 345 . age and infirmities render him unfit for the business , 21.
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... perhaps , have been done sooner had I been better calculated for the business , or had not my fortune required my attention to other pur- suits , by which it has been most materially benefited . Notwithstanding the opinion you entertain ...
... perhaps , have been done sooner had I been better calculated for the business , or had not my fortune required my attention to other pur- suits , by which it has been most materially benefited . Notwithstanding the opinion you entertain ...
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... perhaps to secure a freedom in treating the events of his life which he would not have had were he addressing his daughter . The words " some of " may not have been effaced until after he had determined to allow the Memoirs to be ...
... perhaps to secure a freedom in treating the events of his life which he would not have had were he addressing his daughter . The words " some of " may not have been effaced until after he had determined to allow the Memoirs to be ...
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... perhaps I shall a good deal gratify my own vanity . Indeed , I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words , " Without vanity I may say , " & c . , but some vain thing immediately followed . Most people dis- like vanity in others ...
... perhaps I shall a good deal gratify my own vanity . Indeed , I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words , " Without vanity I may say , " & c . , but some vain thing immediately followed . Most people dis- like vanity in others ...
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... perhaps the more indifferent about them ; so that , upon the whole , I wish the out - of - fashion practice of praising ourselves would , like other old fashions , come round into fashion again . But this , I fear , will not be in our ...
... perhaps the more indifferent about them ; so that , upon the whole , I wish the out - of - fashion practice of praising ourselves would , like other old fashions , come round into fashion again . But this , I fear , will not be in our ...
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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.