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... never loved dress so much as to wish to be particularly fine , yet I never will go out when I cannot appear so as to do credit to my family and husband . Even in death Franklin consistently sought to teach her simplicity and economy ...
... never loved dress so much as to wish to be particularly fine , yet I never will go out when I cannot appear so as to do credit to my family and husband . Even in death Franklin consistently sought to teach her simplicity and economy ...
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... never quite mastered , and atmosphere bothered him whenever he tried to give a naturalistic background . He lacked knowledge of the aërial envelop , just as he failed in the perception of the relation of objects one to another . The ...
... never quite mastered , and atmosphere bothered him whenever he tried to give a naturalistic background . He lacked knowledge of the aërial envelop , just as he failed in the perception of the relation of objects one to another . The ...
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... never was a Wandering Jew . There could not have been ; it is impossible to conceive of a human being sent forth to wander in wretchedness forever . Moreover , suppose there had been such a man , what a poor , modern creature he would ...
... never was a Wandering Jew . There could not have been ; it is impossible to conceive of a human being sent forth to wander in wretchedness forever . Moreover , suppose there had been such a man , what a poor , modern creature he would ...
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... never taken up arms except when obliged to do so , and I have known as little of war as possible . No weapon or missile could kill me , but I have a great regard for my arms and legs . I have been a ruler of men , but I have trembled in ...
... never taken up arms except when obliged to do so , and I have known as little of war as possible . No weapon or missile could kill me , but I have a great regard for my arms and legs . I have been a ruler of men , but I have trembled in ...
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... never dreamed of that small coin of flattery which greedy and dissatisfied natures re- quire , at all costs , when their real longings are unfed . It is their nature to give little ; it is their nature and their delight to ask much ...
... never dreamed of that small coin of flattery which greedy and dissatisfied natures re- quire , at all costs , when their real longings are unfed . It is their nature to give little ; it is their nature and their delight to ask much ...
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Seite 138 - Who, doomed to go in company with pain, And fear, and bloodshed, miserable train! Turns his necessity to glorious gain; In face of these doth exercise a power Which is our human nature's highest dower; Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives...
Seite 505 - AB, profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ, his Eternal Son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit, one God, blessed for evermore ; and do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration.
Seite 397 - ... that if he would give me, weekly, half the money he paid for my board, I would board myself. He instantly agreed to it, and I presently found that I could save half what he paid me.
Seite 405 - I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the coppers.
Seite 514 - Here is my creed. I believe in one God, the creator of the universe. That He governs it by His providence. That He ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable service we render to Him is doing good to His other children. That the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this.
Seite 399 - ... the best school of philosophy, morality, and politics that then existed in the province; for our queries, which were read the week preceding their discussion, put us upon reading with attention...
Seite 396 - I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way, since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.
Seite 397 - ... which I was careful to return soon and clean. Often I sat up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.
Seite 515 - Being in conducting me prosperously through a long life, I have no doubt of its continuance in the next, though without the smallest conceit of meriting such goodness.
Seite 396 - My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the church. My early readiness in learning to read (which must have been very early, as I do not remember when I could not read ) and the opinion of all his friends that I should certainly make a good scholar encouraged him in this purpose of his. My uncle Benjamin, too...