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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... for Prac- tising them . Division of Time , and the Occupation of each Hour . Amusing Anecdote . The Art of Virtue . A Treatise on that Subject proposed . - - 81 98 - CHAPTER VII . Scheme of a Society for extending xxvi CONTENTS .
... for Prac- tising them . Division of Time , and the Occupation of each Hour . Amusing Anecdote . The Art of Virtue . A Treatise on that Subject proposed . - - 81 98 - CHAPTER VII . Scheme of a Society for extending xxvi CONTENTS .
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... proposed by Franklin . Advisable Articles . — Mr. Jay disapproves Mr. Oswald's Com- mission . An Alteration required and obtained . Progress of - - --- - - the Treaty . Independence , Boundaries , Fisheries . — Xxxii CONTENTS .
... proposed by Franklin . Advisable Articles . — Mr. Jay disapproves Mr. Oswald's Com- mission . An Alteration required and obtained . Progress of - - --- - - the Treaty . Independence , Boundaries , Fisheries . — Xxxii CONTENTS .
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... proposed to give me his shorthand . volumes of sermons , to set up with , if I would learn his shorthand . I continued , however , at the grammar school rather less than a year , though in that time I had risen gradually from the middle ...
... proposed to give me his shorthand . volumes of sermons , to set up with , if I would learn his shorthand . I continued , however , at the grammar school rather less than a year , though in that time I had risen gradually from the middle ...
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... proposed to lend me such books , as I chose to read . I now took a strong inclination for poetry , and wrote some little pieces . My brother , supposing it might turn to account , encouraged me , and induced me to compose two occasional ...
... proposed to lend me such books , as I chose to read . I now took a strong inclination for poetry , and wrote some little pieces . My brother , supposing it might turn to account , encouraged me , and induced me to compose two occasional ...
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... proposed as things forgot . " He also recommends it to us " To speak , though sure , with seeming diffidence . " And he might have joined with this line , that which he has coupled with another , I think , less properly , " For want of ...
... proposed as things forgot . " He also recommends it to us " To speak , though sure , with seeming diffidence . " And he might have joined with this line , that which he has coupled with another , I think , less properly , " For want of ...
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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.