Works of the Late Doctor Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of His Life, Written by Himself, Together with Essays, Humorous, Moral & Literary, Chiefly in the Manner of The SpectatorP. Wogan, P. Byrne, J. Moore, and W. Jones, 1793 - 303 Seiten |
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... prefent times , they should fo long have been with - held from the Public . A tran- flation of them appeared in France near two years ago , coming down to the year 1731 . There can be no fuffi- cient reafon , that what has thus been ...
... prefent times , they should fo long have been with - held from the Public . A tran- flation of them appeared in France near two years ago , coming down to the year 1731 . There can be no fuffi- cient reafon , that what has thus been ...
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... pre- fent retirement in the country . There are alfo other motives which induce me to the under- taking . From the bofom of poverty and obfcu- rity , in which I drew my firft breath and spent my earlieft years , I have raised myself to ...
... pre- fent retirement in the country . There are alfo other motives which induce me to the under- taking . From the bofom of poverty and obfcu- rity , in which I drew my firft breath and spent my earlieft years , I have raised myself to ...
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... prefent proprietor . My grandfather had four furviving fons , Tho- mas , John , Benjamin , and Jofias . I fhall give you fuch particulars of them as my memory will furnish , not having my papers here , in which you will find a more ...
... prefent proprietor . My grandfather had four furviving fons , Tho- mas , John , Benjamin , and Jofias . I fhall give you fuch particulars of them as my memory will furnish , not having my papers here , in which you will find a more ...
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... prefent , however , in 1771 , there are no lefs than twenty - five . But he carried his project into ex- ecution , and I was employed in diftributing the copies to his cuftomers , after having aflifted in compofing and working them off ...
... prefent , however , in 1771 , there are no lefs than twenty - five . But he carried his project into ex- ecution , and I was employed in diftributing the copies to his cuftomers , after having aflifted in compofing and working them off ...
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... prefent at the converfa- tion . De Foe has imitated it with fuccefs in his Robinfon Crufoe , his Moll Flanders , and other works ; as alfo has Richardfon in his Pamela , & c . In approaching the ifland , we found that we had made a part ...
... prefent at the converfa- tion . De Foe has imitated it with fuccefs in his Robinfon Crufoe , his Moll Flanders , and other works ; as alfo has Richardfon in his Pamela , & c . In approaching the ifland , we found that we had made a part ...
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Seite 137 - 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 244 - 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, nor counsellors; they were totally good...
Seite 155 - I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for one. I then came home and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers and sisters and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth...
Seite 156 - I saved my money. As I grew up, came into the world, and observed the actions of men, I thought I met with many, very many, who gave too much for the whistle.
Seite 156 - I, you are providing pain for yourself, instead of pleasure; you give too much for your whistle.
Seite 250 - If a white man, in travelling through our country, enters one of our cabins, we all treat him as I do you ; we dry him if he is wet, we warm him if he is cold, and give him meat and drink, that he may allay his...
Seite 271 - Land being cheap in that country, from the vast forests still void of inhabitants, and not likely to be occupied in an age to come, insomuch that the propriety of an hundred acres of fertile soil full of wood may be obtained near the frontiers, in many places, for eight or ten guineas...
Seite 245 - The Business of the Women is to take exact notice of what passes, imprint it in their Memories, for they have no Writing, and communicate it to their Children. They are the Records of the Council, and they preserve...
Seite 164 - ... of minutes become corrupt, like those of other and older bushes, and consequently as wretched : and in philosophy how small our progress ! Alas ! art is long, and life is short ! My friends would comfort me with the idea of a name, they say, I shall leave behind me ; and they tell me I have lived long enough to nature and to glory. But what will fame be to an...
Seite 271 - Multitudes of poor people from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Germany, have by this means in a few years become wealthy farmers, who, in their own countries, where all the lands are fully occupied, and the wages of labour low, could never have emerged from the poor condition wherein they were born.