The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author, Band 1Hilliard, Gray,, 1840 |
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... lived in the same village , Ecton , in North- amptonshire , on a freehold of about thirty acres , for at least three hundred years , and how much longer could not be ascertained . * * Perhaps from the time , when the name of FRANKLIN ...
... lived in the same village , Ecton , in North- amptonshire , on a freehold of about thirty acres , for at least three hundred years , and how much longer could not be ascertained . * * Perhaps from the time , when the name of FRANKLIN ...
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... lived at Ecton , till he was too old to continue his business , when he retired to Banbury in Oxfordshire , to the house of his son John , with whom my father served an apprentice- ship . There my uncle died and lies buried . We saw est ...
... lived at Ecton , till he was too old to continue his business , when he retired to Banbury in Oxfordshire , to the house of his son John , with whom my father served an apprentice- ship . There my uncle died and lies buried . We saw est ...
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... lived in the house at Ecton , and left it with the land to his only daughter , who , with her husband , one Fisher of Wellingborough , sold it to Mr. Isted , now lord of the manor there . My grandfather had four sons , who grew up ; viz ...
... lived in the house at Ecton , and left it with the land to his only daughter , who , with her husband , one Fisher of Wellingborough , sold it to Mr. Isted , now lord of the manor there . My grandfather had four sons , who grew up ; viz ...
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... lived to a great age . He left behind him two quarto volumes of manuscript , of his own poetry , con- sisting of fugitive pieces addressed to his friends . * He had invented a short - hand of his own , which he taught me , but , not ...
... lived to a great age . He left behind him two quarto volumes of manuscript , of his own poetry , con- sisting of fugitive pieces addressed to his friends . * He had invented a short - hand of his own , which he taught me , but , not ...
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... lived lovingly together in wedlock , Fifty - five years ; And without an estate , or any gainful employment , By constant labor , and honest industry , ( With God's blessing , ) Maintained a large family comfortably ; And brought up ...
... lived lovingly together in wedlock , Fifty - five years ; And without an estate , or any gainful employment , By constant labor , and honest industry , ( With God's blessing , ) Maintained a large family comfortably ; And brought up ...
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acquaintance advantage affairs afterwards American appeared appointed arrived Art of Virtue Assembly attended Benjamin Franklin Boston British brother called captain colonies commissioners conduct Congress continued Ecton EDITOR employed endeavour England England Courant father favor France French friends gave give Governor hands honor Hugh Meredith instructions Keimer King letters lived lodged London Lord Lord Chatham Lord Hillsborough Lord Kames means ment ministers never obtained occasion opinion pamphlet paper Paris Parliament Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Gazette persons Philadelphia pieces political pounds pounds sterling present principles printed printer printing-house procure proposed Proprietaries province published Quakers Ralph received respect sail says seems sent ship Society soon Stamp Act Street thing thought tion took town treaty Vergennes virtue volumes William William Temple Franklin writing wrote young
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Seite 102 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men...
Seite 111 - Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme! O teach me what is good; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!
Seite 110 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Seite 34 - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.
Seite 106 - ORDER Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
Seite 571 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Seite 18 - I had gone on making verses ; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it.
Seite 110 - ... the first, proceeds to a second; so I should have (I hoped) the encouraging pleasure of seeing on my pages the progress 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 10 - 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. My early readiness in learning to read (which must have been very early, as I do not remember when I could not read ) and the opinion of all his friends that I should certainly make a good scholar encouraged him in this purpose of his. My uncle Benjamin, too, approved of it, and proposed to...
Seite 597 - 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.