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 1Hilliard, Gray,, 1840 |
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... pounds sterling in silver . He re- ceived me not very frankly , looked me all over , and turned to his work again . The journeymen were inquisitive where I had been , what sort of a country it was , and how I liked it . I praised it ...
... pounds sterling in silver . He re- ceived me not very frankly , looked me all over , and turned to his work again . The journeymen were inquisitive where I had been , what sort of a country it was , and how I liked it . I praised it ...
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... pounds currency , desired I would recover it for him , and keep it till I had his directions what to employ it in . Accordingly he gave me an order to receive it . This business afterwards occasioned me a good deal of uneasiness . At ...
... pounds currency , desired I would recover it for him , and keep it till I had his directions what to employ it in . Accordingly he gave me an order to receive it . This business afterwards occasioned me a good deal of uneasiness . At ...
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... pounds sterling . He liked it , but asked me if my being on the spot in England to choose the types , and see that every thing was good of the kind , might not be of some advantage . " Then , " said he , " when there , you may make ...
... pounds sterling . He liked it , but asked me if my being on the spot in England to choose the types , and see that every thing was good of the kind , might not be of some advantage . " Then , " said he , " when there , you may make ...
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... pounds a year . He died , January 24th , 1762. An account of his life and writings is con- tained in CHALMERS's Biographical Dictionary . — EDITOR . the ship , whose departure too had been several times ET . 18. ] 51 LIFE OF FRANKLIN .
... pounds a year . He died , January 24th , 1762. An account of his life and writings is con- tained in CHALMERS's Biographical Dictionary . — EDITOR . the ship , whose departure too had been several times ET . 18. ] 51 LIFE OF FRANKLIN .
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... estate to charitable purposes , re- serving only twelve pounds a year to live on , and out of this sum she still gave a part in charity , living her- self on water - gruel only , and using no 62 [ 1726 . LIFE OF FRANKLIN .
... estate to charitable purposes , re- serving only twelve pounds a year to live on , and out of this sum she still gave a part in charity , living her- self on water - gruel only , and using no 62 [ 1726 . LIFE OF FRANKLIN .
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Página 102 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men...
Página 111 - Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme! O teach me what is good; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!
Página 110 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Página 34 - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.
Página 106 - ORDER Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
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 18 - I had gone on making verses ; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it.
Página 110 - ... the first, proceeds to a second; so I should have (I hoped) the encouraging pleasure of seeing on my pages the progress I made in virtue by clearing successively my lines of their spots, till in the end by a number of courses, I should be happy in viewing a clean book after a thirteen weeks
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 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.