The British Prose Writers...: Dr. B. Franklin's essaysJ. Sharpe, 1821 |
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... America , why should a good man be offended with me for drawing good characters ? And if I draw ill ones , can they fit any but those that de- serve them ? And ought any but such to be con- cerned that they have their deserts ? I have ...
... America , why should a good man be offended with me for drawing good characters ? And if I draw ill ones , can they fit any but those that de- serve them ? And ought any but such to be con- cerned that they have their deserts ? I have ...
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... America was not heard of , nor so much as a sug- gestion in the minds of men that any part of the world lay that way . The coasts of Greenland , or Spitsbergen , and the whale fishing , not known : the best navigators in the world , at ...
... America was not heard of , nor so much as a sug- gestion in the minds of men that any part of the world lay that way . The coasts of Greenland , or Spitsbergen , and the whale fishing , not known : the best navigators in the world , at ...
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... Cape ! that as to America , it was never supposed there was any such place ; neither had the world , though they stood upon the shoulders of four thousand years ' experience , the least 68 FRANKLIN'S ESSAYS AND LETTERS ,
... Cape ! that as to America , it was never supposed there was any such place ; neither had the world , though they stood upon the shoulders of four thousand years ' experience , the least 68 FRANKLIN'S ESSAYS AND LETTERS ,
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... America , marriages are generally in the morning of life ; our children are , therefore , edu- cated and settled in the world by noon ; and thus , our business being done , we have an afternoon and evening of cheerful leisure to ...
... America , marriages are generally in the morning of life ; our children are , therefore , edu- cated and settled in the world by noon ; and thus , our business being done , we have an afternoon and evening of cheerful leisure to ...
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... America , and it begins lately to make its appearance in these states . It is so in- teresting in itself , as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it ; and thence it is never played for money . Those , therefore , who have ...
... America , and it begins lately to make its appearance in these states . It is so in- teresting in itself , as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it ; and thence it is never played for money . Those , therefore , who have ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
act of parliament advantage America better Britain Busy-Body clothes colonies continue dæmons dear debts earth employed encourage endeavour England equal Europe expense farther favour February 11 fluid Franklin friends frugality give Glaucon Gout happiness honour Horatio hundred increase industry inhabitants judges kind labour land less liberty live luxury Madeira wine manner manufactures marriages means ment merchants mind Mussulmen nation natural necessary neighbours never obliged observed occasion opinion parliament Pennsylvania Gazette perhaps persons Phil Philocles pleasure poor Richard says pounds present produce profit Province of Pennsylvania provinces Prussia quantity racters raised reason rich ruin self-denial shillings ships slaves Socrates Spain specific gravity stamp act subjects subsistence suffered supposed taxes thee thereby things thou thought tion trade virtue whole wise
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 75 - 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 83 - ... the blessing of Heaven ; and therefore ask that blessing humbly, and be not uncharitable to those that at present seem to want it, but comfort and help them. Remember Job suffered, and was afterwards prosperous. "And now, to conclude, 'Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other...
Seite 87 - In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
Seite 75 - Industry need not wish, as Poor Richard says, and he that lives upon Hope will die fasting. There are no Gains without Pains; then Help Hands, for I have no Lands, or if I have, they are smartly taxed.
Seite 159 - I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth— that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings, that "except the Lord build the house they labor in vain that build it.
Seite 77 - Methinks I hear some of you say, 'Must a man afford himself no leisure?' I will tell thee, my friend, what Poor Richard says, Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure; and since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
Seite 159 - I firmly believe this ; and I also believe that without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel. We shall be divided by our little, partial, local interests, our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by-word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and conquest.
Seite 136 - 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...
Seite 99 - Good," which, I think, was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor that several leaves of it were torn out, but the remainder gave me such a turn of thinking as to have an influence on my conduct through life; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good than on any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to that book.
Seite 161 - I doubt, too, whether any other convention we can obtain, may be able to make a better constitution ; for, when you assemble a number of men, to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views.