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 2C. Tappan, 1844 |
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... pounds a year ; and yet , before he had reach- ed thirty , should , by following his own pleasures , and not as you duly regarding consequences , have run out of his estate , and disabled his body to that degree , that he had neither ...
... pounds a year ; and yet , before he had reach- ed thirty , should , by following his own pleasures , and not as you duly regarding consequences , have run out of his estate , and disabled his body to that degree , that he had neither ...
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... you find yourself incapable of aiding a private man , how can you think of behaving yourself so as to be useful to a whole people ? Ought a man , VOL . IL F who has not strength enough to carry a hundred pound MISCELLANEOUS . 61.
... you find yourself incapable of aiding a private man , how can you think of behaving yourself so as to be useful to a whole people ? Ought a man , VOL . IL F who has not strength enough to carry a hundred pound MISCELLANEOUS . 61.
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... pound weight , to undertake to carry a heavier burden ? ' " I would have done good service to my uncle , ' said Glaucon , if he would have taken my advice . ' 666 How , ' replied Socrates , have you not hitherto been able to govern the ...
... pound weight , to undertake to carry a heavier burden ? ' " I would have done good service to my uncle , ' said Glaucon , if he would have taken my advice . ' 666 How , ' replied Socrates , have you not hitherto been able to govern the ...
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... pounds a year you may have the use of one hundred pounds , provided you are a man of known prudence and honesty . He that spends a groat a day idly , spends idly above six pounds a year , which is the price for the use of one hundred ...
... pounds a year you may have the use of one hundred pounds , provided you are a man of known prudence and honesty . He that spends a groat a day idly , spends idly above six pounds a year , which is the price for the use of one hundred ...
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... pounds each day . He that idly loses five shillings ' worth of time , loses five shillings , and might as prudently throw five shil- lings into the sea . He that loses five shillings , not only loses that sum , but all the advantage ...
... pounds each day . He that idly loses five shillings ' worth of time , loses five shillings , and might as prudently throw five shil- lings into the sea . He that loses five shillings , not only loses that sum , but all the advantage ...
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Abbé Abbé Morellet advantage America Auteuil better bills Britain called coin colonies commerce common consequently consider corn currency debts employed endeavour England English school Europe expense exportation favor foreign Franklin friends Gentius gentlemen give Glaucon gold and silver GOUT happiness horse hundred increase industry inhabitants judges kind King king's counsel Kinnersley labor land learned legal tender less libel liberty live 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 Pompon Poor Richard says Poor Richard's Almanac pounds present procure produce profit province qu'il quantity reason receive render Samuel Romilly shillings slavery Socrates souris subsistence thee things thou thought tion trade trustees virtue wages
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Seite 438 - 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, or counsellors; they were totally good for nothing.
Seite 93 - 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 96 - ... 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 100 - The borrower is a slave to the lender, and the debtor to the creditor,' disdain the chain, preserve your freedom, and maintain your independency : be industrious and free ; be frugal and free. At present, perhaps, you may think yourselves in thriving circumstances, and that you can bear a little extravagance without injury ; but ' For age and want save while you may, No morning sun lasts a whole day/ as poor Richard says.
Seite 163 - 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 161 - 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 100 - ... 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 96 - What maintains one Vice, would bring up two Children. "You may think perhaps, that a little Tea, or a little Punch now and then, Diet a little more costly, Clothes a little finer, and a little Entertainment now and then, can be no great Matter; but remember what Poor Richard says, Many a Little makes a Mickle; and farther, Beware of little Expenses; A small Leak will sink a great Ship; and again.
Seite 90 - Pennsylvania, as it discouraged useless expense in foreign superfluities, some thought it had its share of influence in producing that growing plenty of money, which was observable for several years after its publication. I considered my newspaper, also, as another means of communicating instruction, and in that view frequently reprinted in it extracts from the Spectator, and other moral writers ; and sometimes published little pieces of my own, which had been first composed for reading in our Junto.
Seite 98 - And again, 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, 'Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.