The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral and Literary, with His Life, Written by HimselfLeavitt, Trow & Company, 1848 - 288 Seiten |
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... things for myself , when I have had no mechanic at hand , and to construct small machines for my experiments , while the idea I have conceived has been fresh and strongly impressed on my imagina- tion . My father at length decided that ...
... things for myself , when I have had no mechanic at hand , and to construct small machines for my experiments , while the idea I have conceived has been fresh and strongly impressed on my imagina- tion . My father at length decided that ...
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... Things of Socrates , in which are various examples of the same method . Charmed to a degree of enthu- siasm with this mode of disputing , I adopted it , and renouncing blunt contradictions , and direct and posi- tive argument , I ...
... Things of Socrates , in which are various examples of the same method . Charmed to a degree of enthu- siasm with this mode of disputing , I adopted it , and renouncing blunt contradictions , and direct and posi- tive argument , I ...
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... thing is so or so , for such and such reasons ; or it is so , if I am not mistaken . This habit has , I think , been of considerable advan- tage to me , when I have had occasion to impress my opi- nion on the minds of others , and ...
... thing is so or so , for such and such reasons ; or it is so , if I am not mistaken . This habit has , I think , been of considerable advan- tage to me , when I have had occasion to impress my opi- nion on the minds of others , and ...
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... things forgot . And in the same poem he afterwards advises us , To speak though sure , with seeming diffidence . He ... thing that was not likely to succeed ; a single newspaper being , in their opinion , sufficient for all America . At ...
... things forgot . And in the same poem he afterwards advises us , To speak though sure , with seeming diffidence . He ... thing that was not likely to succeed ; a single newspaper being , in their opinion , sufficient for all America . At ...
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... thing should be adjusted to my satisfaction ; and he was very pressing in his entreaties . I answered his letter , thanked him for his advice , and explained the reasons which had induced me to quit Boston , with such force and ...
... thing should be adjusted to my satisfaction ; and he was very pressing in his entreaties . I answered his letter , thanked him for his advice , and explained the reasons which had induced me to quit Boston , with such force and ...
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Seite 235 - How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.
Seite 238 - So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality, if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will, as Poor Richard says; and — • Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea ' forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting.
Seite 276 - I doubt, too, whether any other convention we can obtain may be able to make a better constitution ; for when you assemble a number of men, to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views.
Seite 237 - Methinks I hear some of you say, Must a man afford himself no leisure? I will tell thee, my friend, what Poor Richard says: Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure ; and since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
Seite 276 - Constitution. For, when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected ? It therefore astonishes me, sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does...
Seite 240 - And again, Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but Poor Dick says, 'Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
Seite 127 - 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 217 - We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it ; and to show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take great care of their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them.
Seite 216 - We have had some experience of it ; several of our young people were formerly brought up at the colleges of the northern provinces ; they were instructed in all your sciences ; but when they came back to us, they were bad runners ; ignorant of every means of living in the woods ; unable to bear either cold or hunger ; knew neither how to build a cabin, take a deer, or kill an enemy ; spoke our language imperfectly ; were therefore neither fit for hunters, warriors, or counsellors : they were totally...
Seite 158 - Remember this. saying, The good paymaster is lord of another man's purse. He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the time he promises, may at any time, and on any occasion, raise all the money his friends can spare. This is sometimes of great use.