The True Benjamin FranklinJ.B. Lippincott, 1898 - 369 Seiten Decrying the habit of American biographers to mythologize their subjects, Sydney George Fisher sets out to write a book about the True Benjamin Franklin. Of Franklin, he says that the human in him was so interlaced with the divine that the one dragged the other into light. Fisher s book is a unique biography of Benjamin Franklin, written by an opinionated man who grew up directly in the wake of Franklin s influence on American culture.-- |
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... doubt they were sometimes compelled to join in the laugh . He never attacked or abused . Contentment was a natural consequence of these qualities , and contributed largely to maintain his vigor through eighty - four years of a very ...
... doubt they were sometimes compelled to join in the laugh . He never attacked or abused . Contentment was a natural consequence of these qualities , and contributed largely to maintain his vigor through eighty - four years of a very ...
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... doubt intended to represent him in a characteristic attitude . As showing the calm philosopher and diplomat reading and think- ing , somewhat idealized and yet a more or less true likeness , it is in many respects the best picture we ...
... doubt intended to represent him in a characteristic attitude . As showing the calm philosopher and diplomat reading and think- ing , somewhat idealized and yet a more or less true likeness , it is in many respects the best picture we ...
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... doubt but his present afflictions were kindly intended to wean him from a world , in which he was no longer fit to act the part assigned him . In this frame of body and mind he continued till five days before his death , when his pain ...
... doubt but his present afflictions were kindly intended to wean him from a world , in which he was no longer fit to act the part assigned him . In this frame of body and mind he continued till five days before his death , when his pain ...
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... doubt inherited his fondness for books , a fondness that was reinforced by a similar tendency which , though not very strong in his father , evidently existed in his father's family , as Uncle Benjamin's verses show . These verses sent ...
... doubt inherited his fondness for books , a fondness that was reinforced by a similar tendency which , though not very strong in his father , evidently existed in his father's family , as Uncle Benjamin's verses show . These verses sent ...
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... doubt that French edu- cation is just the thing we need . Always imitating something ; always trying to bring in the foreign and distant . And until we stop this vulgar provincial snobbery and believe in ourselves and learn to do our ...
... doubt that French edu- cation is just the thing we need . Always imitating something ; always trying to bring in the foreign and distant . And until we stop this vulgar provincial snobbery and believe in ourselves and learn to do our ...
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Seite 151 - Things, for they may all be blasted without 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 362 - often and often in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that sun behind the president without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting; but now, at length, I have the happiness to know that it is a rising, and not a setting sun.
Seite 153 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Seite 46 - I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the writing excellent and wished if possible to imitate it.
Seite 151 - Industry all easy, as Poor Richard says; 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...
Seite 362 - On the whole, sir, I cannot help expressing a wish that every member of the Convention who may still have objections to it would, with me, on this occasion doubt a little of his own infallibility, and, to make manifest our unanimity, put his name to this instrument.
Seite 94 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which, I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me: I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold; as he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper.
Seite 151 - 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. Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose : so, by diligence, shall we do more with less perplexity. Sloth makes all things difficult, but Industry all things easy...
Seite 137 - For instance, my breakfast was a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer with a pewter spoon.
Seite 156 - When Abraham sat at his tent door, according to his custom, waiting to entertain strangers, he espied an old man, stooping and leaning on his staff, weary with age and travel, coming towards him, who was an hundred years of age.