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 Author, Band 2Townsend Mac Coun, 1882 |
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... become truly virtuous and magnanimous , -Help me , good God ; help me , O Father ! And , forasmuch as ingratitude is one of the most odious of vices , let me not be unmindful gratefully to acknowledge the favors I receive from Heaven ...
... become truly virtuous and magnanimous , -Help me , good God ; help me , O Father ! And , forasmuch as ingratitude is one of the most odious of vices , let me not be unmindful gratefully to acknowledge the favors I receive from Heaven ...
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... becoming So. That laudable ambition is too commonly misap- plied , and often ill employed . Some , to make them- selves ... become really great by being good , and the number of valuable men would be much increased ; but it is a grand ...
... becoming So. That laudable ambition is too commonly misap- plied , and often ill employed . Some , to make them- selves ... become really great by being good , and the number of valuable men would be much increased ; but it is a grand ...
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... become detestable ; be- cause , in such a case , as is justly observed , the pleas- ure arising from a tale of wit and novelty soon dies away in generous and honest minds , and is followed with a secret grief to see their neighbours ...
... become detestable ; be- cause , in such a case , as is justly observed , the pleas- ure arising from a tale of wit and novelty soon dies away in generous and honest minds , and is followed with a secret grief to see their neighbours ...
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... become natural , are apt to break their banks . If one servant is more valuable than another , has he not more merit than the other ? and yet this is not on account of superior self - denial . Is a patriot not praiseworthy , if public ...
... become natural , are apt to break their banks . If one servant is more valuable than another , has he not more merit than the other ? and yet this is not on account of superior self - denial . Is a patriot not praiseworthy , if public ...
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... become the care of great men , and labored in by the potentates of the world , viz . emperors , kings , princes , & c . Mathematical demonstrations are a logic of as much or more use , than that commonly learned at schools , serving to ...
... become the care of great men , and labored in by the potentates of the world , viz . emperors , kings , princes , & c . Mathematical demonstrations are a logic of as much or more use , than that commonly learned at schools , serving to ...
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Seite 95 - If Time be of all Things the most precious, wasting Time must be, as Poor Richard says, the greatest Prodigality; since, as he elsewhere tells us, Lost Time is never found again; and what we call Time enough, always proves little enough...
Seite 98 - For want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost; ' being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail.
Seite 100 - Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy.' When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but poor Dick says, ' It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
Seite 163 - s thousands o' my mind. [The first recruiting sergeant on record I conceive to have been that individual who is mentioned in the Book of Job as going to and fro in the earth , and walking up and down in it.
Seite 165 - Doth Job fear God for nought ? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side ? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Seite 100 - If you would know the Value of Money, go and try to borrow some...
Seite 93 - I have been, if I may say it without vanity an eminent author of almanacks annually now a full quarter of a century, my brother authors in the same way, for what reason I know not, have ever been very sparing in their applauses, and no other author has taken the least notice of me, so that did...
Seite 98 - You call them goods ; but, if you do not take care, they will prove evils to some of you. You expect they will be sold cheap, and perhaps they may for less than they cost ; but, if you have no occasion for them, they must be dear to you.
Seite 97 - And again, Three removes are as bad as a fire; and again, Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee; and again, If you would have your business done, go; if not, send. And again, He that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.
Seite 180 - I saved my money. As I grew up, came into the world, and observed the actions of men, I thought I met with many, very many, who gave too much for the whistle.