The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters Official and Private Not Hitherto Published : with Notes and a Life of the AuthorTappan, Whittemore, and Mason, 1836 |
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... less than nothing , and of no sort of consequence . When I think thus , I imagine it great vanity in me to suppose , that the Supremely Perfect does in the least regard such an inconsiderable nothing as man ; more especially , since it ...
... less than nothing , and of no sort of consequence . When I think thus , I imagine it great vanity in me to suppose , that the Supremely Perfect does in the least regard such an inconsiderable nothing as man ; more especially , since it ...
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... less may every little scribbler , that shall attack me , expect an answer from the Busy - Body . The sum of the charge delivered against me , either directly or indirectly , in the said paper , is this . Not to mention the first weighty ...
... less may every little scribbler , that shall attack me , expect an answer from the Busy - Body . The sum of the charge delivered against me , either directly or indirectly , in the said paper , is this . Not to mention the first weighty ...
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... less search after imaginary hidden treasure . They wander through the woods and bushes by day , to dis- cover the marks and signs ; at midnight they repair to the hopeful spots with spades and pickaxes ; full of expectation , they labor ...
... less search after imaginary hidden treasure . They wander through the woods and bushes by day , to dis- cover the marks and signs ; at midnight they repair to the hopeful spots with spades and pickaxes ; full of expectation , they labor ...
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... less than the most egregious folly and madness . I shall conclude with the words of my discreet friend Agricola , of Chester county , when he gave his son a good plantation . " My son , " said he , " I give thee now a valuable parcel of ...
... less than the most egregious folly and madness . I shall conclude with the words of my discreet friend Agricola , of Chester county , when he gave his son a good plantation . " My son , " said he , " I give thee now a valuable parcel of ...
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... less and less virtuous , till at length we have no virtue at all ? If self - denial be the essence of virtue , then it follows that the man , who is naturally temperate , just , & c . , is not virtuous ; but that in order to be virtuous ...
... less and less virtuous , till at length we have no virtue at all ? If self - denial be the essence of virtue , then it follows that the man , who is naturally temperate , just , & c . , is not virtuous ; but that in order to be virtuous ...
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Abbé Morellet advantage America better bills Britain called coin colonies commerce common consequently considered corn currency debts employed endeavour England English school Europe expense exportation favor foreign Franklin friends gentlemen give Glaucon gold and silver GOUT happiness Helvetius horse hundred increase industry inhabitants judges kind King king's counsel Kinnersley labor land learned legal tender less libel liberty live Madame Helvétius mankind manner manufactures marriages master means ment merchants mind Montrésor nation nature necessary neighbours never obliged observed occasion opinion paid paper money PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE perhaps persons Philocles pleasure plenty Poor Richard says POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC pounds present principles procure produce profit province quantity readers reason receive Samuel Romilly shillings slavery Socrates subsistence thee things thou thought tion trade trustees virtue wages whole writing