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... becoming the agent to enforce a business contract in which Read proved to be delinquent , if not dishonest . 66 Franklin's eldest son , William , was born out of wed- lock , but so far as lay within the father's power he repaired the ...
... becoming the agent to enforce a business contract in which Read proved to be delinquent , if not dishonest . 66 Franklin's eldest son , William , was born out of wed- lock , but so far as lay within the father's power he repaired the ...
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... become " a thorough govern- ment man . " When the English government removed Franklin from his postmaster - generalship , in 1774 , he appealed to the son to resign his office ; and on his refusal to resent the disgrace which his ...
... become " a thorough govern- ment man . " When the English government removed Franklin from his postmaster - generalship , in 1774 , he appealed to the son to resign his office ; and on his refusal to resent the disgrace which his ...
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... become of great service to his country . It is enough that I have lost my son ; would they add my grandson ? An old man of seventy , I undertook a winter voyage at the command of the Congress , and for the public service , with no other ...
... become of great service to his country . It is enough that I have lost my son ; would they add my grandson ? An old man of seventy , I undertook a winter voyage at the command of the Congress , and for the public service , with no other ...
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... becoming restive . " He was not his only accuser in this respect . John Adams , in 1778 , said of him : " [ Franklin ] ... become intellectually idle . " For my own part , " he says , " everything of difficult discus- sion , and that ...
... becoming restive . " He was not his only accuser in this respect . John Adams , in 1778 , said of him : " [ Franklin ] ... become intellectually idle . " For my own part , " he says , " everything of difficult discus- sion , and that ...
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... becoming content with one's sit- uation is the comparing it with a worse . Thus , when I consider how many terrible ... become a com- mon carriage in my time , though being easiest of all voitures it would be extremely convenient to me ...
... becoming content with one's sit- uation is the comparing it with a worse . Thus , when I consider how many terrible ... become a com- mon carriage in my time , though being easiest of all voitures it would be extremely convenient to me ...
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Seite 109 - 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 coppers.
Seite 113 - We have had some experience of it : 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, nor counsellors ; they were totally...
Seite 393 - Don't give too much for the whistle ; and I saved my money.
Seite 143 - AB, profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ, his Eternal Son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit, one God, blessed for evermore ; and do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration.
Seite 90 - Tryon's manner of preparing some of his dishes, such as boiling potatoes or rice, making hasty pudding, and a few others, and then proposed to my brother, that if he would give me, weekly, half the money he paid for my board, I would board myself. He instantly agreed to it, and I presently found that I could save half what he paid me.
Seite 220 - By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.
Seite 217 - Tragedy, and contained an account of the drowning of Captain Worthilake, with his two daughters ; the other was a sailor's song, on the taking of Teach (or Blackbeard), the pirate.
Seite 220 - I took some of the tales and turned them into verse ; and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. I also sometimes jumbled my collections of hints into confusion, and after some weeks endeavored to reduce them into the best order, before I began to form the full sentences and compleat the paper.
Seite 170 - Here is my creed. I believe in one God, the creator of the universe. That He governs it by His providence. That He ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable service we render to Him is doing good to His other children. That the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this.
Seite 221 - During my brother's confinement, which I resented a good deal, notwithstanding our private differences, I had the management of the paper; and I made bold to give our rulers some rubs in it, which my brother took very kindly, while others began to consider me in an unfavorable light, as a young genius that had a turn for libelling and satire.