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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... thousand citizens of Boston for an adminis- tration of happiness , prosperity , and progress . My honored predecessor in his happy introduction has asked me to explain wherein Boston is bigger and better to - day than she was in the ...
... thousand citizens of Boston for an adminis- tration of happiness , prosperity , and progress . My honored predecessor in his happy introduction has asked me to explain wherein Boston is bigger and better to - day than she was in the ...
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... thousand pounds to the Town of Boston . The said sum of one thousand Pounds Sterling , if accepted by the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston , shall be managed under the direction of the Select Men , united with the Ministers of the ...
... thousand pounds to the Town of Boston . The said sum of one thousand Pounds Sterling , if accepted by the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston , shall be managed under the direction of the Select Men , united with the Ministers of the ...
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... thousand Pounds of which I would have the Managers of the Donation to the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston , then lay out at their discretion one hundred thousand Pounds in Public Works which may be judged of most general utility to ...
... thousand Pounds of which I would have the Managers of the Donation to the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston , then lay out at their discretion one hundred thousand Pounds in Public Works which may be judged of most general utility to ...
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... thousand pounds to almost exactly ninety thousand pounds ( $ 431,735.18 ) . In one hundred years the original capital had been multiplied about ninety times instead of one hundred and thirty times as Franklin had antici- pated . The ...
... thousand pounds to almost exactly ninety thousand pounds ( $ 431,735.18 ) . In one hundred years the original capital had been multiplied about ninety times instead of one hundred and thirty times as Franklin had antici- pated . The ...
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... thousand white inhabitants , and they , like the Irish peasant landlords , looked upon their American holdings simply as a source of personal revenue . The principal point in the discussion was as to whether the waste lands owned by ...
... thousand white inhabitants , and they , like the Irish peasant landlords , looked upon their American holdings simply as a source of personal revenue . The principal point in the discussion was as to whether the waste lands owned by ...
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Abraham Acting Mayor Ambassador American appropriation for Mayor assembly bald eagle Benjamin Franklin better birth of Benjamin BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS called chairman character citizens City Council city of Boston colonies colonists Commonwealth of Massachusetts Congress considered Constitution Court CURTIS GUILD debt to Franklin endeavor England ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOL exercises expense father FITZGERALD France Franklin Bi-Centennial Committee Franklin Fund French gave Governor HENRY SMITH PRITCHETT honor hundred hundredth anniversary industry inhabitants interest invitation JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE January 17 John Adams Jusserand Lindsay Swift LL.D Lord managers Mayor be authorized nation never occasion orator papers Paris Parliament patriot Philadelphia philosopher President printer Pritchett Province of Pennsylvania repealed Republic Revolution SAMUEL ABBOTT GREEN sent shillings Stamp Act stand Street Symphony Hall thee thou thought thousand pounds to-day Town of Boston Washington whistle whole Written
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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...