The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral, and Literary: with His Life, Written by HimselfS. Andrus and son, 1849 - 304 Seiten |
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... pleasure by being in formed that the National Assembly of France had determined to go into mourning for him . What a glorious scene is opened there ! The an- nals of the world furnish no parallel to it . One of the honors of our ...
... pleasure by being in formed that the National Assembly of France had determined to go into mourning for him . What a glorious scene is opened there ! The an- nals of the world furnish no parallel to it . One of the honors of our ...
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... pleasure to you as to me . I shall relate them upon paper ; it will be an agreeable employment of a weeks uninter- rupted leisure , which I promise myself during my present retirement in the country . There are also other motives which ...
... pleasure to you as to me . I shall relate them upon paper ; it will be an agreeable employment of a weeks uninter- rupted leisure , which I promise myself during my present retirement in the country . There are also other motives which ...
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... pleasure in writing down according to the expe- ditory method he had devised . Many volumes were thus collected by him . He was also ex- tremely fond of politics , too much so perhaps for his situation . I lately found in London a ...
... pleasure in writing down according to the expe- ditory method he had devised . Many volumes were thus collected by him . He was also ex- tremely fond of politics , too much so perhaps for his situation . I lately found in London a ...
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... de- rived no small pleasure in seeing skillful work- men handle their tools ; and it has proved of con- siderable benefit , to have acquired thereby suf ficient knowledge to be able to make little things for 20 LIFE OF FRANKLIN .
... de- rived no small pleasure in seeing skillful work- men handle their tools ; and it has proved of con- siderable benefit , to have acquired thereby suf ficient knowledge to be able to make little things for 20 LIFE OF FRANKLIN .
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... pleasure of disputing . He was nat- urally more eloquent than I ; words flowed copi- ously from his lips ; and frequently I thought my- self vanquished , more by his volubility than by the force of his arguments . We separated with- out ...
... pleasure of disputing . He was nat- urally more eloquent than I ; words flowed copi- ously from his lips ; and frequently I thought my- self vanquished , more by his volubility than by the force of his arguments . We separated with- out ...
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Seite 261 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; 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 horseshoe nail.
Seite 157 - THE BODY .of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (Like the cover of an old Book, Its contents torn out, And stript of its lettering and gilding,) Lies here, food for worms : • Yet the work itself shall not be lost, For it will (as he believed) appear once more, In a new And more beautiful edition Corrected and Amended by The Author.
Seite 242 - Several of our young people were formerly brought up at the colleges of the Northern Provinces; they were instructed in all your Sciences; but, when they came back to us, they were bad runners, ignorant of every means of living in the woods, unable to bear either cold or hunger, knew neither how to build a cabin, take a deer, or kill an enemy, spoke our language imperfectly, were therefore neither fit for hunters, warriors, nor counsellors; they were totally good for nothing.
Seite 259 - Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the Purpose; so by Diligence shall we do more with less Perplexity. Sloth makes all Things difficult, but Industry all easy...
Seite 259 - ... as Poor Richard says. But dost thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff" life is made of, as Poor Richard says. How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.
Seite 242 - We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it ; and to show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take great care of their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them.
Seite 258 - ... by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an abatement. However, let us hearken to good advice and something may be done for us; God helps them that help themselves, as Poor Richard says, in his Almanac of 1733.
Seite 261 - Business; but to these we must add Frugality, if we would make our Industry more certainly successful. A Man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his Nose all his Life to the Grindstone, and die not worth a Groat at last. A fat Kitchen makes a lean Will, as Poor Richard says; and Many Estates are spent in the Getting, Since Women for Tea forsook Spinning and Knitting, And Men for Punch forsook Hewing and Splitting.
Seite 261 - And again, the eye of a master will do more work than both his hands; and again, want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge; and again, not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open. Trusting too much to others...
Seite 179 - the opinion of learned philosophers of our race, who lived and flourished long before my time, that this vast world, the Moulin Joly, could not itself subsist more than eighteen hours ; and I think there was some foundation for that opinion, since, by the apparent motion of the great luminary that gives life to all nature, and which in my time has evidently declined considerably...