The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Ed., and Many Letters Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author, Volumen 1Tappan and Whittemore, 1840 |
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... lived in the same village , Ecton , in North- amptonshire , on a freehold of about thirty acres , for at least three hundred years , and how much longer could not be ascertained . * * Perhaps from the time , when the name of FRANKLIN ...
... lived in the same village , Ecton , in North- amptonshire , on a freehold of about thirty acres , for at least three hundred years , and how much longer could not be ascertained . * * Perhaps from the time , when the name of FRANKLIN ...
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... lived at Ecton , till he was too old to continue his business , when he retired to Banbury in Oxfordshire , to the house of his son John , with whom my father served an apprentice- ship . There my uncle died and lies buried . We saw est ...
... lived at Ecton , till he was too old to continue his business , when he retired to Banbury in Oxfordshire , to the house of his son John , with whom my father served an apprentice- ship . There my uncle died and lies buried . We saw est ...
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... lived in the house at Ecton , and left it with the land to his only daughter , who , with her husband , one Fisher of Wellingborough , sold it to Mr. Isted , now lord of the manor there . My grandfather had four sons , who grew up ; viz ...
... lived in the house at Ecton , and left it with the land to his only daughter , who , with her husband , one Fisher of Wellingborough , sold it to Mr. Isted , now lord of the manor there . My grandfather had four sons , who grew up ; viz ...
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... lived to a great age . He left behind him two quarto volumes of manuscript , of his own poetry , con- sisting of fugitive pieces addressed to his friends . * He had invented a short - hand of his own , which he taught me , but , not ...
... lived to a great age . He left behind him two quarto volumes of manuscript , of his own poetry , con- sisting of fugitive pieces addressed to his friends . * He had invented a short - hand of his own , which he taught me , but , not ...
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... lived lovingly together in wedlock , Fifty - five years ; And without an estate , or any gainful employment , By constant labor , and honest industry , ( With God's blessing , ) Maintained a large family comfortably ; And brought up ...
... lived lovingly together in wedlock , Fifty - five years ; And without an estate , or any gainful employment , By constant labor , and honest industry , ( With God's blessing , ) Maintained a large family comfortably ; And brought up ...
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Página 106 - ORDER Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
Página 597 - 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 571 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Página 10 - My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the church. My early readiness in learning to read (which must have been very early, as I do not remember when I could not read ) and the opinion of all his friends that I should certainly make a good scholar encouraged him in this purpose of his. My uncle Benjamin, too, approved of it, and proposed to...
Página 569 - The good education of youth has been esteemed by wise men in all ages as the surest foundation of the happiness both of private families and of commonwealths. Almost all governments have therefore made it a principal object of their attention to establish and endow with proper revenues such seminaries of learning, as might supply the succeeding age with men qualified to serve the public with honor to themselves and to their country.
Página 110 - Length of days is in her right hand ; And in her left hand riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths are peace.
Página 145 - American Magazine, or a Monthly View of the Political State of the British Colonies. There were three numbers, dated January through March. The close rival was Benjamin Franklin's The General Magazine and Historical Chronicle for All the British Plantations in America.
Página 12 - At his table he liked to have, as often as he could, some sensible friend or neighbour 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...
Página 267 - I am very sorry, that you intend soon to leave our hemisphere. America has sent us many good things, gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo, &c. ; but you are the first philosopher, and indeed the first great man of letters for whom we are beholden to her.
Página 106 - I concluded, at length, that the mere speculative conviction that it was our interest to be completely virtuous was not sufficient to prevent our slipping; and that the contrary habits must be broken, and good ones acquired and established, before we can have any dependence on 'a steady, uniform rectitude of conduct.