The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and a Sketch of Franklin's Life from the Point where the Autobiography Ends. Drawn Chiefly from His Letters. With Notes and a Chronological Historical TableHoughton, Mifflin, 1896 - 253 Seiten |
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... whole appeared to me as written with a good deal of decent plainness and manly free- dom . The six concluding lines I remember , though I have forgotten the two first of the stanza ; but the pur- port of them was , that his censures ...
... whole appeared to me as written with a good deal of decent plainness and manly free- dom . The six concluding lines I remember , though I have forgotten the two first of the stanza ; but the pur- port of them was , that his censures ...
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... whole by myself with great ease . I also read Seller's and Shermy's books of Navigation , and became acquainted with the little geometry they contain ; but never pro- ceeded far in that science . And I read about this time Locke On ...
... whole by myself with great ease . I also read Seller's and Shermy's books of Navigation , and became acquainted with the little geometry they contain ; but never pro- ceeded far in that science . And I read about this time Locke On ...
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... and tyrannical treatment of me might be a means of impressing me with that aversion to arbitrary power that has stuck to me through my whole life . B. F. was taken up and examined before the council ; but 28 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF.
... and tyrannical treatment of me might be a means of impressing me with that aversion to arbitrary power that has stuck to me through my whole life . B. F. was taken up and examined before the council ; but 28 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF.
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... whole stock of cash consisted of a Dutch dollar , 1 and about a shil- ling in copper . The latter I gave the people of the boat for my passage , who at first refused it on account of my rowing ; but I insisted on their taking it . A man ...
... whole stock of cash consisted of a Dutch dollar , 1 and about a shil- ling in copper . The latter I gave the people of the boat for my passage , who at first refused it on account of my rowing ; but I insisted on their taking it . A man ...
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... whole before we came . I had made some courtship during this time to Miss Read . I had a great respect and affection for her , and had some reason to believe she had the same for me ; but as I was about to take a long voyage , and we ...
... whole before we came . I had made some courtship during this time to Miss Read . I had a great respect and affection for her , and had some reason to believe she had the same for me ; but as I was about to take a long voyage , and we ...
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Seite 101 - Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2 SILENCE Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3 ORDER Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4 RESOLUTION Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
Seite 96 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men...
Seite 21 - By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that in certain particulars of small import I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.
Seite 101 - Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; ie, waste nothing. 6. INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. 7. SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly. 8. JUSTICE. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
Seite 20 - Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected them. But I found I wanted a stock of words, or a readiness in recollecting and using them...
Seite 240 - 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 104 - 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 102 - My intention being to acquire the habitude of all these virtues, I judged it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at once but to fix it on one of them at a time, and when I should be master of that, then to proceed to another, and so on till I should have gone thro
Seite 78 - The rules that I drew up required that every member in his turn should produce one or more queries on any point of morals, politics, or natural philosophy, to be discussed by the company ; and once in three months produce and read an essay of his own writing, on any subject he pleased.