The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including the Private as Well as the Official and Scientific Correspondence Together with the Unmutilated and Correct Version of the Autobiography, Volumen 12G.P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1904 |
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... sent to England . TO WILLIAM STRAHAN 276 Letter of condolence on the death of a member of his family . 1759 TO DR . WILLIAM HEBBRDEN , JUNE 7TH Electrical experiments with tourmalins . 1761 TO MISS MARy Stevenson , AUGUST 10TH • The ...
... sent to England . TO WILLIAM STRAHAN 276 Letter of condolence on the death of a member of his family . 1759 TO DR . WILLIAM HEBBRDEN , JUNE 7TH Electrical experiments with tourmalins . 1761 TO MISS MARy Stevenson , AUGUST 10TH • The ...
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... sent to England . To shorten the work , as well as for other reasons , I omit all facts and transactions that may not have a tendency to benefit the young reader by showing him from my example , and my success in emerging from 1788 ] 7 ...
... sent to England . To shorten the work , as well as for other reasons , I omit all facts and transactions that may not have a tendency to benefit the young reader by showing him from my example , and my success in emerging from 1788 ] 7 ...
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... sent to me , and therefore I have now drawn upon you for the same , and having present occasion for money , I depend on your honoring my draft . I am , sir , your humble servant , B. FRANKLIN . MDXXIII TO MRS . PARTRIDGE ' PHILADELPHIA ...
... sent to me , and therefore I have now drawn upon you for the same , and having present occasion for money , I depend on your honoring my draft . I am , sir , your humble servant , B. FRANKLIN . MDXXIII TO MRS . PARTRIDGE ' PHILADELPHIA ...
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... sent to me , though other ministers were al- lowed such assistance . I must own , I did hope that , as it is customary in Europe , to make some liberal provision for ministers when they return home from foreign service , the Con- gress ...
... sent to me , though other ministers were al- lowed such assistance . I must own , I did hope that , as it is customary in Europe , to make some liberal provision for ministers when they return home from foreign service , the Con- gress ...
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... sent to France , I left it in the hands of my son - in - law , who was to act as my deputy . But soon after my departure it was taken from me and given to Mr. Hazard . When the English ministry formerly thought fit to deprive me of the ...
... sent to France , I left it in the hands of my son - in - law , who was to act as my deputy . But soon after my departure it was taken from me and given to Mr. Hazard . When the English ministry formerly thought fit to deprive me of the ...
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Página 224 - 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.
Página 163 - God grant that not only the love of liberty, but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man, may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say, This is my country!
Página 186 - I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some Doubts as to his Divinity; tho...
Página 56 - The practice of robbing merchants on the high seas, a remnant of the ancient piracy, though it may be accidentally beneficial to particular persons, is far from being profitable to all engaged in it, or to the nation that authorizes it.
Página 161 - Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.* Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy, 13 Nov.
Página 132 - Their support is founded in the depravity of such minds, as have not been mended by religion, nor improved by good education; "There is a Lust in Man no charm can tame, Of loudly publishing his Neighbour's Shame." Hence; "On Eagle's Wings immortal Scandals fly, While virtuous Actions are but born and die.
Página 79 - To form their style, they should be put on writing letters to each other, making abstracts of what they read, or writing the same things in their own words; telling or writing stories lately read, in their own expressions.
Página 200 - Franklin is dead ! The genius, that freed America and poured a flood of light over Europe, has returned to the bosom of the Divinity. " The sage whom two worlds claim as their own, the man for whom the history of science and the history of empires contend with each other, held, without doubt, a high rank in the human race.
Página 187 - PS Had not your College some Present of Books from the King of France? Please to let me know, if you had an Expectation given you of more, and the Nature of that Expectation? I have a Reason for the Enquiry.
Página 182 - I received the letter you did me the honor of writing to me, and am much obliged by your kind present of a book.