Benjamin FranklinHoughton Mifflin, 1889 - 428 Seiten |
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... brought them all to be our subscribers . " Later his articles in favor of the issue of a sum of paper currency were so largely instrumental in carrying that measure that the profitable job of printing the money became his reward . Thus ...
... brought them all to be our subscribers . " Later his articles in favor of the issue of a sum of paper currency were so largely instrumental in carrying that measure that the profitable job of printing the money became his reward . Thus ...
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... brought it up in that society . Thus through so many active - minded and disputatious young men interest in the subject speedily percolated through a community of no greater size than Philadelphia . Franklin was the tap - root of the ...
... brought it up in that society . Thus through so many active - minded and disputatious young men interest in the subject speedily percolated through a community of no greater size than Philadelphia . Franklin was the tap - root of the ...
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... brought prompt response and coöperation . The result was as usual . Franklin's hand knew the way to every Philadelphian mer- chant's pocket . Respected as he was , it may be doubted whether he was always sincerely welcomed as he used to ...
... brought prompt response and coöperation . The result was as usual . Franklin's hand knew the way to every Philadelphian mer- chant's pocket . Respected as he was , it may be doubted whether he was always sincerely welcomed as he used to ...
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... brought about the sweeping of the streets twice in each week . Lighting the streets came al- most simultaneously ; and in connection with this he showed his wonted ingenuity . Globes open only at the top had heretofore been used , and ...
... brought about the sweeping of the streets twice in each week . Lighting the streets came al- most simultaneously ; and in connection with this he showed his wonted ingenuity . Globes open only at the top had heretofore been used , and ...
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... brought into comparison , his were deemed the best . His outline of a scheme , he says , " happen'd to be preferr'd , " and , with a few amend- ments , was accordingly reported . It was a league rather than a union , somewhat resembling ...
... brought into comparison , his were deemed the best . His outline of a scheme , he says , " happen'd to be preferr'd , " and , with a few amend- ments , was accordingly reported . It was a league rather than a union , somewhat resembling ...
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Seite 203 - MR. STRAHAN, You are a member of parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. — You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our people. — Look upon your hands! — They are stained with the blood of your relations ! — You and I were long friends: — You are now my enemy, — and I am • Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
Seite 405 - I have said he, often and often in the course of the Session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting: But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting Sun.
Seite 36 - That, as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours ; and this we should do freely and generously.
Seite 6 - 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 28 - I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some Doubts as to his Divinity; tho...
Seite 44 - House approved the nomination, and provided the goods for the present, and tho' they did not much like treating out of the provinces; and we met the other commissioners at Albany about the middle of June. In our way thither, I projected and drew a plan for the union of all the colonies under one government, so far as might be necessary for defense and other important general purposes.
Seite 397 - I had not firmness enough to resist the unanimous desire of my country folks ; and I find myself harnessed again in their service for another year. They engrossed the prime of my life. They have eaten my flesh, and seem resolved now to pick my bones.
Seite 133 - The very tails of the American sheep are so laden with wool that each has a little car or waggon on four little wheels to support and keep it from trailing on the ground.