Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, Volumen 1Mason Brothers, 1864 - 710 páginas |
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... less perilous times , but , being less wary than his father , got into trouble . Of him we are told that he was imprisoned for a year and a day , " on suspicion of his being the author of some poetry that touched the character of some ...
... less perilous times , but , being less wary than his father , got into trouble . Of him we are told that he was imprisoned for a year and a day , " on suspicion of his being the author of some poetry that touched the character of some ...
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... less danger of his being spoiled . There are more to love him , and he has more to love . He learns early to consider himself as only one person among many , and he is constantly reminded that others , as well as himself , have feelings ...
... less danger of his being spoiled . There are more to love him , and he has more to love . He learns early to consider himself as only one person among many , and he is constantly reminded that others , as well as himself , have feelings ...
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... less useful , but often more so , is a good aunt . Such relations can do some services for chil- dren better than their parents can , and their peculiar influence is essential to perfect breeding . One incident of Franklin's childhood ...
... less useful , but often more so , is a good aunt . Such relations can do some services for chil- dren better than their parents can , and their peculiar influence is essential to perfect breeding . One incident of Franklin's childhood ...
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... less than a year , he rose to the head of his class , and was promised other promotion , but before the year came to a close , his father dis- covered that he had undertaken too much for one with his narrow means and large family . He ...
... less than a year , he rose to the head of his class , and was promised other promotion , but before the year came to a close , his father dis- covered that he had undertaken too much for one with his narrow means and large family . He ...
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... less heart . He imparted whatever he had of knowledge and ac- complishment to his young namesake ; taught him his system of short - hand , strengthened in him all his tendencies toward good , and , doubtless , placed a firm and kindly ...
... less heart . He imparted whatever he had of knowledge and ac- complishment to his young namesake ; taught him his system of short - hand , strengthened in him all his tendencies toward good , and , doubtless , placed a firm and kindly ...
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America Andrew Bradford appeared apprentice asked Assembly began Benjamin Franklin Boston brother called captain church colonies Cotton Mather Council Courant Deborah Read Ecton electricity England English father friends gave Gazette gentleman give Governor hand happy heard honor hundred Indians James James Franklin John John Adams Keimer kind king lady late learned letters lived London Lord Lord Bute Lord Loudoun ment mind ministers nature never newspaper observed occasion opinion pamphlet paper Parliament passage Penn Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Gazette person Peter Collinson Philadelphia pleasure Poor Richard pounds printed printer proprietaries province published Quakers Ralph received religion replied says Franklin sent shillings ship soon Stamp Act Street thing Thomas Whately thou thought thousand tion told town truth virtue Whately William William Penn writing wrote young
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Página 47 - O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God : for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
Página 242 - I enter'd upon the execution of this plan for selfexamination, and continu'd it with occasional intermissions for some time. I was surpris'd to find .myself so much fuller of faults than I had imagined ; but I had the satisfaction of seeing them diminish.
Página 165 - 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 200 - I found it in a china bowl, with a spoon of silver! They had been bought for me without my knowledge by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum of threeand-twenty shillings, for which she had no other excuse or apology to make but that she thought her husband deserved a silver spoon and china bowl as well as any of his neighbors.
Página 203 - The institution soon manifested its utility, was imitated by other towns, and in other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations ; reading became fashionable ; and our people, having no public...
Página 240 - I grew convinced that truth, sincerity, and integrity, in dealings between man and man, were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life; and I formed written resolutions, which still remain in my journal book, to practice them ever while I lived.
Página 173 - I seldom attended any public worship, I had still an opinion of its propriety, and of its utility when rightly conducted, and I regularly paid my annual subscription for the support of the only Presbyterian minister or meeting we had in Philadelphia. He...
Página 418 - Were the face of the earth, he says, vacant of other plants, it might be gradually sowed and overspread with one kind only, as for instance with fennel; and were it empty of other inhabitants, it might in a few ages be replenished from one nation only, as for instance with Englishmen.
Página 488 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white...
Página 461 - But since it is down, my friend, and it may be long before it rises again, let us make as good a night of it as we can. We may still light candles. Frugality and industry will go a great way towards indemnifying us. Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments.