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; with Notes and a Life of the Author, Volumen 7Childs & Peterson, 1840 |
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... happy , you cannot be in danger of taking wrong steps , while all of them tend to that end . But I think one of the principal things for this purpose will be in the choice of the trustees , and of the rector who is to oversee the ...
... happy , you cannot be in danger of taking wrong steps , while all of them tend to that end . But I think one of the principal things for this purpose will be in the choice of the trustees , and of the rector who is to oversee the ...
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... happy . * * At another time he wrote to his sister , who was in affliction ; · " The longer we live we are exposed to more of these strokes of Providence ; but , though we consider them as such , and know it is our duty to submit to the ...
... happy . * * At another time he wrote to his sister , who was in affliction ; · " The longer we live we are exposed to more of these strokes of Providence ; but , though we consider them as such , and know it is our duty to submit to the ...
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... happy new year to you , and him , and all yours . I am , Sir , & c . B. FRANKLIN . P. S. I wrote to you last post , and sent my paper on the Increase of Mankind . I send the Supplemental Electrical Experiments in several fragments of ...
... happy new year to you , and him , and all yours . I am , Sir , & c . B. FRANKLIN . P. S. I wrote to you last post , and sent my paper on the Increase of Mankind . I send the Supplemental Electrical Experiments in several fragments of ...
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... happy . best spirits . I write this Persons subject to the hyp complain of the northeast wind , as increasing their malady . But since you prom- ised to send me kisses in that wind , and I find you as good as your word , it is to me the ...
... happy . best spirits . I write this Persons subject to the hyp complain of the northeast wind , as increasing their malady . But since you prom- ised to send me kisses in that wind , and I find you as good as your word , it is to me the ...
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... happy situation shall continue as long as God pleases , who knows what is best for his creatures , and I hope will enable me to bear with patience and dutiful submission any change he may think fit to make , that is less agreeable . As ...
... happy situation shall continue as long as God pleases , who knows what is best for his creatures , and I hope will enable me to bear with patience and dutiful submission any change he may think fit to make , that is less agreeable . As ...
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Página 290 - Ignorant people may object that the upper lakes are fresh, and that cod and whale are salt water fish. But let them know, sir, that cod, like other fish when attacked by their enemies, fly into any water where they can be safest; that whales, when they have a mind to eat cod, pursue them wherever they fly; and that the grand leap of the whale in that chase up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.
Página 77 - ... but now-a-days, we have scarce a little parson that does not think it the duty of every man within his reach to sit under his petty ministrations ; and that whoever omits them offends God.
Página 36 - Thus you see I am in a fair way of having no other tasks than such as I shall like to give myself, and of enjoying what I look upon as a great happiness, leisure to read, study, make experiments, and converse at large with such ingenious and worthy men as are pleased to honor me with their friendship or acquaintance, on such points as may produce something for the common benefit of mankind, uninterrupted by the little cares and fatigues of business.
Página 75 - He that for giving a draught of water to a thirsty person, should expect to be paid with a good plantation, would be modest in. his demands, compared with those who think they deserve heaven for the little good they do on earth.
Página 73 - His outward freedom : tyranny must be ; Though to the tyrant thereby no excuse. Yet sometimes nations will decline so low From virtue, which is reason, that no wrong, But justice, and some fatal curse annex'd, Deprives them of their outward liberty ; Their inward lost : witness the irreverent son Of him who built the ark ; who, for the shame Done to his father, heard this heavy curse, Servant of servants, on his vicious race.
Página 268 - I have in a private capacity given just cause of offence to any one whatever), yet they are enemies, and very bitter ones; and you must expect their enmity will extend in some degree to you, so that your slightest indiscretions will be magnified into crimes, in order the more sensibly to wound and afflict me. It is therefore the more necessary for you to be extremely circumspect in all your behaviour, that no advantage may be given to their malevolence.
Página 75 - I do not look upon myself as conferring favors, but as paying debts. In my travels, and since my settlement, I have received much kindness from men to whom I shall never have any opportunity of making the least direct return ; and numberless mercies from God, who is infinitely above being benefited by our services.
Página 72 - In short, unless the stream of their importation could be turned from this to other colonies, as you very judiciously propose, they will soon so outnumber us that all the advantages we have will, in my opinion, be not able to preserve our language, and even our government will become precarious.
Página 440 - April 1769, nothing that has happened or may happen will diminish in the least our Loyalty to our Sovereign, or Affection for this Nation in general. I can scarcely conceive a King of better Dispositions, of more exemplary Virtues, or more truly desirous of promoting the Welfare of all his Subjects.
Página 401 - Wilkes and liberty, marking the same words on all their coaches with chalk, and No. 45* on every door; which extends a vast way along the roads into the country.