The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Band 1J. B. Lippincott & Company, 1875 - 579 Seiten |
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Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow. the General Assembly having lately desired my assistance at a great convention to be held in May next for amending the Federal Constitution , I begin to doubt whether I can make any progress in it till ...
Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow. the General Assembly having lately desired my assistance at a great convention to be held in May next for amending the Federal Constitution , I begin to doubt whether I can make any progress in it till ...
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... Assembly in November . If I live to see this year expire , I may enjoy some leisure , which I promise you to employ in the work you do me the honor to urge so earnestly . ” t Scarcely two months later , and under date of April. * Le ...
... Assembly in November . If I live to see this year expire , I may enjoy some leisure , which I promise you to employ in the work you do me the honor to urge so earnestly . ” t Scarcely two months later , and under date of April. * Le ...
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... Assembly . Mr. Short goes to Holland , and I am totally neglected . I shall therefore lose no time , but turn my attention to other pursuits . ” * No farther correspondence appears to have passed between William Temple Franklin and M ...
... Assembly . Mr. Short goes to Holland , and I am totally neglected . I shall therefore lose no time , but turn my attention to other pursuits . ” * No farther correspondence appears to have passed between William Temple Franklin and M ...
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... Assembly . illy neglected . y attention to jet serer months osten impression that aro engagements.time ring out his works If so , his filmes as matural and ob Le Veilium , fed ve passed bele Veillard , ll 1794. The robably the ret's ...
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... Assembly . Mr. Short goes to Holland , and I am totally neglected . I shall therefore lose no time , but turn my attention to other pursuits . " * No farther correspondence appears to have passed between William Temple Franklin and M ...
... Assembly . Mr. Short goes to Holland , and I am totally neglected . I shall therefore lose no time , but turn my attention to other pursuits . " * No farther correspondence appears to have passed between William Temple Franklin and M ...
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Seite 198 - 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. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver ; and he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket...
Seite 76 - I took a delight in it, practis'd it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not foresee, entangling them in difficulties out of which they could not extricate themselves, and so obtaining victories that neither myself nor my cause always deserved.
Seite 89 - Street wharf, near the boat I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water; and being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther.
Seite 73 - ... in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should occur to me. Then I compared my ' Spectator ' with the original, discovered some of my faults and corrected them.
Seite 77 - ... in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error. And by such a manner, you can seldom hope to recommend yourself in pleasing your hearers, or to persuade those whose concurrence you desire. Pope says, judiciously: "Men should be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot;" farther recommending to us "To speak, tho' sure, with seeming diffidence.
Seite 115 - Water-American, as they called me, was stronger than themselves, who drank strong beer! We had an alehouse boy who attended always in the house to supply the workmen. My companion at the press drank every day a pint before breakfast, a pint at breakfast with his bread and cheese, a pint between breakfast and dinner, a pint at dinner, a pint in the afternoon about six o'clock, and another when he had done his day's work.
Seite 171 - I could go through a course complete in thirteen weeks, and four courses in a year. And like him who, having a garden to weed, does not attempt to eradicate all the bad herbs at once, which would exceed his reach and his strength, but works on one of the beds at a time, and, having accomplished the first, proceeds to a second...
Seite 161 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Seite 199 - The application was unfortunately [made] to perhaps the only man in the company who had the firmness not to be affected by the preacher. His answer was, " At any other time, Friend Hopkinson, I would lend to thee freely; but not now, for thee seems to be out of thy right senses.
Seite 80 - I did not give them any satisfaction, they contented themselves with admonishing me, and dismissed me, considering me, perhaps, as an apprentice, who was bound to keep his master's secrets. 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...