Two-hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Benjamin Franklin: Celebration by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the City of Boston, Symphony Hall, January Seventeenth, 1906 ...The University Press, 1906 - 113 Seiten |
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... Washington by more than twenty - five years ; and Washington himself , together with the other leaders of that eventful period looked up to him for counsel . In such times it is young men for action but old men for advice ; and Franklin ...
... Washington by more than twenty - five years ; and Washington himself , together with the other leaders of that eventful period looked up to him for counsel . In such times it is young men for action but old men for advice ; and Franklin ...
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... Washington's services alone during the Revolution can claim to equal those of this typical American , the child of the tallow chandler , who came into the swarming little house on Milk Street two centuries ago . Certainly if in ...
... Washington's services alone during the Revolution can claim to equal those of this typical American , the child of the tallow chandler , who came into the swarming little house on Milk Street two centuries ago . Certainly if in ...
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... Washington , ever been quite duplicated in regard to any President by any modern writer . Honorable traditions are only of value , however , if those who succeed to them keep them honorable . The Golden Age of Franklin's own pro ...
... Washington , ever been quite duplicated in regard to any President by any modern writer . Honorable traditions are only of value , however , if those who succeed to them keep them honorable . The Golden Age of Franklin's own pro ...
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... Washington in the creation of our Union . He was delegate to the Continental Congress , Minister to Paris throughout the war of Independence , and a member of the con- vention which framed the Constitution . But he did not owe his ...
... Washington in the creation of our Union . He was delegate to the Continental Congress , Minister to Paris throughout the war of Independence , and a member of the con- vention which framed the Constitution . But he did not owe his ...
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... Washington himself was but forty - four , Jefferson thirty - three , and Hamilton nineteen . The others had their reputations to make ; Franklin was already successful in commerce , a household word in literature , renowned throughout ...
... Washington himself was but forty - four , Jefferson thirty - three , and Hamilton nineteen . The others had their reputations to make ; Franklin was already successful in commerce , a household word in literature , renowned throughout ...
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Seite 102 - In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality — that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
Seite 68 - MR. STRAHAN, You are a member of parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. — You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our people. — Look upon your hands! — They are stained with the blood of your relations ! — You and I were long friends: — You are now my enemy, — and I am • Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
Seite 111 - In this situation of this Assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights, to illuminate our understandings...
Seite 92 - I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the writing excellent and wished if possible to imitate it.
Seite 113 - 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.
Seite 92 - I met a boy with bread. I had made many a meal on bread, and, inquiring where he got it, I went immediately to the baker's he directed me to, in...
Seite 91 - Brownell, very successful in his profession generally, and that by mild, encouraging methods. Under him I acquired fair writing pretty soon, but I failed in the arithmetic, and made no progress in it. At ten years old...
Seite 92 - I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there. I was in my working dress, my best clothes being to come round by sea.
Seite 111 - MR. PRESIDENT, The small progress we have made, after four or five weeks' close attendance and continual reasonings with each other, our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many Noes as Ayes, is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since VOL.
Seite 95 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...