The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published, Band 2T. MacCoun, 1882 |
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... virtue ? 9. Have you or any of your acquaintance been late- ly sick or wounded ? If so , what remedies were used , and what were their effects ? 10. Whom do you know that are shortly going voyages or journeys , if one should have ...
... virtue ? 9. Have you or any of your acquaintance been late- ly sick or wounded ? If so , what remedies were used , and what were their effects ? 10. Whom do you know that are shortly going voyages or journeys , if one should have ...
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... virtue was taught as a liberal art or science ; and it is certainly of more consequence to a man , that he has learnt to govern his passions in spite of temptation , to be just in his dealings , to be temperate in his pleasures , to ...
... virtue was taught as a liberal art or science ; and it is certainly of more consequence to a man , that he has learnt to govern his passions in spite of temptation , to be just in his dealings , to be temperate in his pleasures , to ...
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... Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great , glorious , and happy . He that is acquainted with Cato , as I am , cannot help thinking as I do now , and will acknowledge he deserves the name , without being honored by it . Cato is a ...
... Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great , glorious , and happy . He that is acquainted with Cato , as I am , cannot help thinking as I do now , and will acknowledge he deserves the name , without being honored by it . Cato is a ...
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... virtue , make him justly deserve to be esteemed the glory of his country . " The brave do never shun the light ; Just are their thoughts , and open are their tempers ; Freely without disguise they love and hate ; Still are they found in ...
... virtue , make him justly deserve to be esteemed the glory of his country . " The brave do never shun the light ; Just are their thoughts , and open are their tempers ; Freely without disguise they love and hate ; Still are they found in ...
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... virtue ? It is true , we love the handsome , we applaud the learned , and we fear the rich and powerful ; but we even worship and adore the virtuous . Nor is it strange ; since men of virtue are so rare , so very rare to be found . If ...
... virtue ? It is true , we love the handsome , we applaud the learned , and we fear the rich and powerful ; but we even worship and adore the virtuous . Nor is it strange ; since men of virtue are so rare , so very rare to be found . If ...
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Seite 95 - If Time be of all Things the most precious, wasting 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...
Seite 98 - For want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost; ' being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail.
Seite 100 - Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy.' When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but poor Dick says, ' It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
Seite 163 - s thousands o' my mind. [The first recruiting sergeant on record I conceive to have been that individual who is mentioned in the Book of Job as going to and fro in the earth , and walking up and down in it.
Seite 165 - Doth Job fear God for nought ? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side ? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Seite 100 - If you would know the Value of Money, go and try to borrow some...
Seite 93 - I have been, if I may say it without vanity an eminent author of almanacks annually now a full quarter of a century, my brother authors in the same way, for what reason I know not, have ever been very sparing in their applauses, and no other author has taken the least notice of me, so that did...
Seite 98 - You call them goods ; but, if you do not take care, they will prove evils to some of you. You expect they will be sold cheap, and perhaps they may for less than they cost ; but, if you have no occasion for them, they must be dear to you.
Seite 97 - And again, Three removes are as bad as a fire; and again, Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee; and again, If you would have your business done, go; if not, send. And again, He that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.
Seite 180 - I saved my money. As I grew up, came into the world, and observed the actions of men, I thought I met with many, very many, who gave too much for the whistle.