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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... equal share of the reckoning with himself . If such a fellow makes laughing the sole end and purpose of his life , if it is necessary to his constitu- tion , or if he has a great desire of growing suddenly fat , let him eat ; let him ...
... equal share of the reckoning with himself . If such a fellow makes laughing the sole end and purpose of his life , if it is necessary to his constitu- tion , or if he has a great desire of growing suddenly fat , let him eat ; let him ...
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... equal tal- ents . It was very dim in several of my first cousins , and probably had been nearly extinct in our particular branch , had not my father been a traveller . He lived , in his youthful days , in New England . There he married ...
... equal tal- ents . It was very dim in several of my first cousins , and probably had been nearly extinct in our particular branch , had not my father been a traveller . He lived , in his youthful days , in New England . There he married ...
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... equal ape the rich , as the ox . Vessels large may venture more , But little boats should keep near shore . It is , however , a folly soon punished ; for , as Poor Richard says , Pride that dines on vanity , sups on con- tempt . Pride ...
... equal ape the rich , as the ox . Vessels large may venture more , But little boats should keep near shore . It is , however , a folly soon punished ; for , as Poor Richard says , Pride that dines on vanity , sups on con- tempt . Pride ...
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... equal in their spelling to be put together . Let these strive for victory ; each propounding ten words every day to the other to be spelled . He that spells truly most of the other's words is victor for that day ; he that is victor most ...
... equal in their spelling to be put together . Let these strive for victory ; each propounding ten words every day to the other to be spelled . He that spells truly most of the other's words is victor for that day ; he that is victor most ...
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... equal regard might have been shown to both schools , submitted , though not without regret , and at times some little complaining , which , with their not being able in nine months to find a proper person for English master , who would ...
... equal regard might have been shown to both schools , submitted , though not without regret , and at times some little complaining , which , with their not being able in nine months to find a proper person for English master , who would ...
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Abbé Morellet advantage America better bills Britain called coin colonies commerce common consequently considered corn currency dear 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
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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.