Benjamin Franklin and the University of Pennsylvania, Ausgabe 2Francis Newton Thorpe U.S. Government Printing Office, 1893 - 450 Seiten |
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... Chemical Lecture Room - Medical Hall ... Medical Museum - Medical Hall .. Lecture Room in Law School Organic Laboratory - College Hall . ( From the south ) Physical Lecture Room - College Hall .... Dental Operating Room ..... Seminary ...
... Chemical Lecture Room - Medical Hall ... Medical Museum - Medical Hall .. Lecture Room in Law School Organic Laboratory - College Hall . ( From the south ) Physical Lecture Room - College Hall .... Dental Operating Room ..... Seminary ...
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... need not expect to find in his " Proposals for the Education of Youth " the equipment of a modern chemical , mechanical , or biological laboratory . The chief occupation of Americans was farming , and like FRANKLIN'S SELF - EDUCATION . 15.
... need not expect to find in his " Proposals for the Education of Youth " the equipment of a modern chemical , mechanical , or biological laboratory . The chief occupation of Americans was farming , and like FRANKLIN'S SELF - EDUCATION . 15.
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... chemistry , the pharmacy , the architecture , and every other branch of science , being in those languages it was , of course , necessary to learn them as the gates through which men must pass to get at that knowledge . The books then ...
... chemistry , the pharmacy , the architecture , and every other branch of science , being in those languages it was , of course , necessary to learn them as the gates through which men must pass to get at that knowledge . The books then ...
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... chemistry , such as improvements in distillation , brewing , and assaying of ores ; new mechanical inventions for saving labor , as mills and carriages , and for raising and conveying of water , draining of meadows , etc .; all new arts ...
... chemistry , such as improvements in distillation , brewing , and assaying of ores ; new mechanical inventions for saving labor , as mills and carriages , and for raising and conveying of water , draining of meadows , etc .; all new arts ...
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... chemistry , etc. , at least their rudiments , can not be forgotten . Geography , astronomy , and even history and chronology , though I am myself afflicted with a kind of pyrrhonism in the two latter , I presume can not be omitted . The ...
... chemistry , etc. , at least their rudiments , can not be forgotten . Geography , astronomy , and even history and chronology , though I am myself afflicted with a kind of pyrrhonism in the two latter , I presume can not be omitted . The ...
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Academy Adams alumni American anatomy appointed archæology architecture Art of Virtue arts assembly Benjamin Benjamin Franklin Board of Trustees botany building chair character Charitable School charter chemistry city of Philadelphia College colonies committee constitution course court degree dental Department elected endowment engineering English school erected established faculty Franklin Franklin Institute fund Girard College given graduated Greek hospital illustrated important influence institution instruction interest John Joseph Leidy judge labor laboratory languages Latin learning lectures letter literature master mathematics mechanical medicine meeting ment moral natural natural philosophy organization original Penn persons philosophy political practical present president principles Prof professor professorship province of Pennsylvania provost received Richard Peters scientific seminary Smith Society teaching Thomas tion United University of Pennsylvania versity Veterinary vice-provost Wharton School William Pepper William Shippen writing
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Seite 9 - At his table he liked to have, as often as he could, some sensible friend or neighbor to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse, which might tend to improve the minds of his children. By this means he turned our attention to what was good, just, and prudent in the conduct of life...
Seite 13 - For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.
Seite 173 - Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this commonwealth, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them;...
Seite 74 - An Act for the further security of his Majesty's Person and Government, and the Succession of the Crown in the heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants ; and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open abettors.
Seite 27 - I crossed these columns with thirteen red lines, marking the beginning of each line with the first letter of one of the virtues, on which line and in its proper column I might mark by a little black spot, every fault I found upon examination to have been committed respecting that virtue upon that day.
Seite 162 - What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Seite 120 - I would have the managers of the donation to the town of Boston then lay out, at their discretion, one hundred thousand pounds in public works, which may be judged of most general utility to the inhabitants, such as fortifications, bridges, aqueducts, public buildings, baths, pavements, or whatever may make living in the town more convenient to its people, and render it more agreeable to strangers resorting thither for health or a temporary residence.
Seite 122 - England, some doubts as to his divinity; though it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an opportunity of knowing the truth with less trouble.
Seite 173 - Cambridge, public schools and grammar schools in the towns; to encourage private societies and public institutions, rewards and immunities, for the promotion of agriculture, arts, sciences, commerce, trades, manufactures, and a natural history of the country...
Seite 122 - ... to see ; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting changes, and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his Divinity...