Essays and LettersJohn Sharpe, 1820 - 340 Seiten |
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... become really great by being good , and the number of valuable men would be much increased ; but it is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness ; and I pronounce it as certain , that there was never yet a truly great man ...
... become really great by being good , and the number of valuable men would be much increased ; but it is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness ; and I pronounce it as certain , that there was never yet a truly great man ...
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... become de- testable ; because , in such a case , as is justly ob- served , the pleasure 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 de- testable ; because , in such a case , as is justly ob- served , the pleasure 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 absolute , you will be able to serve your friends ; you will raise your family ; you will extend the bounds of your country ; you will be known not only in Athens , but through all Greece ; and perhaps your renown will fly even ...
... become absolute , you will be able to serve your friends ; you will raise your family ; you will extend the bounds of your country ; you will be known not only in Athens , but through all Greece ; and perhaps your renown will fly even ...
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... become na- tural , 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 ac- count of superior self - denial . Is a patriot not praise - worthy if ...
... become na- tural , 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 ac- count of superior self - denial . Is a patriot not praise - worthy if ...
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... , Noah , Abra- ham , Moses , and divers others . There has not been any science so much es- teemed and honoured as this of the mathematics , nor with so much industry and vigilance become the care 60 FRANKLIN'S ESSAYS AND LETTERS ,
... , Noah , Abra- ham , Moses , and divers others . There has not been any science so much es- teemed and honoured as this of the mathematics , nor with so much industry and vigilance become the care 60 FRANKLIN'S ESSAYS AND LETTERS ,
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Seite 74 - God helps them that help themselves,' as poor Richard says. " I. It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part of their time, to be employed in its service: but idleness taxes many of us much more; sloth, by bringing on
Seite 74 - stopped my horse lately, where a great number of people were collected, at an auction of merchants' goods. The hour of the sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times; and one of the company called to a plain clean old man, with white locks,
Seite 101 - filled my pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop where they sold toys for children; and being charmed with the sound of a whistle that I met by the way in the bands of another boy, I voluntarily offered him all my money for
Seite 103 - improvement of the mind or of his fortune, to mere corporeal sensations, and ruining his health in their pursuit, " Mistaken man," says I, " you are providing pain for yourself, instead of pleasure : you give too much for your whistle." If I see one fond of appearance, of fine clothes,
Seite 19 - of the value of lace. . The importer may demand forty, and perhaps get thirty shillings for that which cost him but twenty. 12. Finally, there seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbours : this is
Seite 81 - Would you not say, that you were free, have a right to dress as you please, and that such an edict would be a breach of your privileges, and such a government tyrannical ? And yet you are about to put yourself under that tyranny, when you run in
Seite 113 - and you must be of my opinion. If they met so often to learn good things, they would certainly have learned some before this time. But they are still ignorant. You know our practice. If a white man, in travelling through our country, enters one of our cabins, we all treat him as I do you
Seite 77 - II. But with our industry we must likewise be steady, settled, and careful, and oversee our own affairs with our own eyes, and not trust too much to others; for, as poor Richard says, ' I never saw an oft-removed tree, Nor yet
Seite 107 - We are convinced, therefore, that you mean to do us good by your proposal; and we thank you heartily. But you, who are wise, must know that different nations have different conceptions of things ; and you will therefore not take it amiss, if
Seite 19 - The second by commerce,which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle wrought by the hand of God in his favour, as a reward for his innocent life, and his virtuous industry. B. FRANKLIN.