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... tells the facts of New England history ; it recounts the lives of the early governors and ministers ; it describes the ... tell the truth and shame the devil as to shame him by pointing out what truth ought to be . As a record of fact ...
... tells the facts of New England history ; it recounts the lives of the early governors and ministers ; it describes the ... tell the truth and shame the devil as to shame him by pointing out what truth ought to be . As a record of fact ...
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... tell him , it signifies no more in English , than our Lusts , and if I were to translate , our Loves ; it must be nothing shorter than Noowoman tammooonkanunonnash . Or , to give my Reader a longer Word than either of these ...
... tell him , it signifies no more in English , than our Lusts , and if I were to translate , our Loves ; it must be nothing shorter than Noowoman tammooonkanunonnash . Or , to give my Reader a longer Word than either of these ...
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... 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 . Leisure is time for doing something useful ; this leisure the ...
... 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 . Leisure is time for doing something useful ; this leisure the ...
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... Tell our dear good friend , Dr. Price , who sometimes has his doubts and despondencies about our firm- ness , that America is determined and unanimous ; a very few Tories and placemen excepted , who will probably soon export themselves ...
... Tell our dear good friend , Dr. Price , who sometimes has his doubts and despondencies about our firm- ness , that America is determined and unanimous ; a very few Tories and placemen excepted , who will probably soon export themselves ...
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... tell you , I shall make no scruple ( on the prospect of a good market for that commodity ) even to send my ships to Hell and supply the Devil with brimstone . For you must know , I can insure in London against the burning of my sails ...
... tell you , I shall make no scruple ( on the prospect of a good market for that commodity ) even to send my ships to Hell and supply the Devil with brimstone . For you must know , I can insure in London against the burning of my sails ...
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Seite 263 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
Seite 113 - Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as "What is all this worth?
Seite 38 - Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy, and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night ; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him. Drive thy business, let not that drive thee; and early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise,
Seite 80 - Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected ; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Seite 263 - On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it — all sought to avert it.
Seite 40 - 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 40 - If you would be wealthy, think of saving, as well as of getting. The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her outgoes are greater than her incomes.
Seite 192 - The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.
Seite 106 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.
Seite 36 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.