The British Prose Writers...: Dr. B. Franklin's essaysJ. Sharpe, 1821 |
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... character . As I do not aim at public praise , I design to remain con- cealed and there are such numbers of our family and relations at this time in the country , that , though I have signed my name at full length , I am not under the ...
... character . As I do not aim at public praise , I design to remain con- cealed and there are such numbers of our family and relations at this time in the country , that , though I have signed my name at full length , I am not under the ...
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... character is that of the good - natured , gay Eugenius ! who never spoke yet but with a design to divert and please , and who was never yet balked in his intention . Eugenius takes more delight in applying the wit of his friends , than ...
... character is that of the good - natured , gay Eugenius ! who never spoke yet but with a design to divert and please , and who was never yet balked in his intention . Eugenius takes more delight in applying the wit of his friends , than ...
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... character , than be the richest , the most learned , or the most powerful man in the province without it ? Almost every man has a strong natural desire of being valued and esteemed by the rest of his species ; but I am concerned and ...
... character , than be the richest , the most learned , or the most powerful man in the province without it ? Almost every man has a strong natural desire of being valued and esteemed by the rest of his species ; but I am concerned and ...
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... characters happen to be drawn in the course of these papers , they mean no particular person , if they are not par- ticularly applied . Likewise , that the author is no party - man , but a general meddler . N. B. Cretico lives in a ...
... characters happen to be drawn in the course of these papers , they mean no particular person , if they are not par- ticularly applied . Likewise , that the author is no party - man , but a general meddler . N. B. Cretico lives in a ...
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... characters , trans- actions , & c . which will be requisite to the perfect- ing and embellishment of the said work , are desired to communicate the same to the author , and direct their letters to be left with the printer hereof . The ...
... characters , trans- actions , & c . which will be requisite to the perfect- ing and embellishment of the said work , are desired to communicate the same to the author , and direct their letters to be left with the printer hereof . The ...
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.