Lessons from the Life of Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790P. Paul & Bro., 1891 - 120 Seiten |
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... Leaving school at ten years of age , starting in life substantially pennyless , dependent upon his own exertions , passing his youth in a country which was in a state of extreme poverty , he felt and taught that economy was a pressing ...
... Leaving school at ten years of age , starting in life substantially pennyless , dependent upon his own exertions , passing his youth in a country which was in a state of extreme poverty , he felt and taught that economy was a pressing ...
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... leave him , he took care to prevent my getting employment in any other printing- house of the town , by going round and speaking to every master , who accordingly refused to give me work . I then thought of going to New York , as the ...
... leave him , he took care to prevent my getting employment in any other printing- house of the town , by going round and speaking to every master , who accordingly refused to give me work . I then thought of going to New York , as the ...
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... leaving my chest and things to follow me round by sea . In crossing the bay , we met with a squall that tore our rotten sails to pieces , prevented our getting into the Kill , and drove us upon Long Island . On approach- ing the island ...
... leaving my chest and things to follow me round by sea . In crossing the bay , we met with a squall that tore our rotten sails to pieces , prevented our getting into the Kill , and drove us upon Long Island . On approach- ing the island ...
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... leaving Boston so fully and in such a light as to convince him that I was not so much in the wrong as he had apprehended . Sir William Keith , Governor of the Province , was then at Newcastle , and Captain Holmes , happening to be in ...
... leaving Boston so fully and in such a light as to convince him that I was not so much in the wrong as he had apprehended . Sir William Keith , Governor of the Province , was then at Newcastle , and Captain Holmes , happening to be in ...
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... leave of Keimer as going to see my friends . The governor gave me an ample letter , saying many flattering things of me to my father , and strongly recommending the project of my setting up at Phila- delphia as a thing that would make ...
... leave of Keimer as going to see my friends . The governor gave me an ample letter , saying many flattering things of me to my father , and strongly recommending the project of my setting up at Phila- delphia as a thing that would make ...
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Seite 56 - It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection. I wished to live without committing any fault at any time ; I would conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other.
Seite 3 - ... length to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind and make me master of it. Therefore, I took some of the tales and turned them into verse; and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again.
Seite 3 - 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 57 - In the various enumerations of the moral virtues I had met with in my reading, I found the catalogue more or less numerous, as different writers included more or fewer ideas under the same name. Temperance, for example, was by some confined to eating and drinking, while by others it was extended to mean the moderating every other pleasure, appetite, inclination, or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition.
Seite 42 - I had form'd most of my ingenious acquaintance into a club of mutual improvement, which we called the JUNTO ; we met on Friday evenings. 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 discuss'd by the company ; and once in three months produce and read an essay of his own writing, on any subject he pleased.
Seite 55 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Seite 58 - I cross'd these columns with thirteen red lines, marking the beginning of each line with the first letter of one of the virtues, on which line, and in its proper column...
Seite 42 - Our debates were to be under the direction of a president and to be conducted in the sincere spirit of inquiry after truth, without fondness for dispute or desire of victory ; and to prevent warmth, all expressions of positiveness in opinions or direct contradiction were after some time made contraband and prohibited under small pecuniary penalties.
Seite 62 - I had early so much weight with my fellowcitizens when I proposed new institutions, or alterations in the old, and so much influence in public councils when I became a member ; for I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct in language, and yet I generally carried my points.
Seite 15 - ... with one; but there was another printer in town, lately set up, one Keimer, who, perhaps, might employ me; if not, I should be welcome to lodge at his house, and he would give me a little work to do now and then till fuller business should offer. The old gentleman said he would go with me to the new printer; and when we found him, "Neighbor," says Bradford, "I have brought to see you a young man of your business ; perhaps you may want such a one.