The True Benjamin FranklinJ.B. Lippincott, 1898 - 369 páginas Decrying the habit of American biographers to mythologize their subjects, Sydney George Fisher sets out to write a book about the True Benjamin Franklin. Of Franklin, he says that the human in him was so interlaced with the divine that the one dragged the other into light. Fisher s book is a unique biography of Benjamin Franklin, written by an opinionated man who grew up directly in the wake of Franklin s influence on American culture.-- |
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... conduct . His father , being a man of sense , flatly refused to furnish money to start a boy of eighteen in an ex- pensive business , and was curious to know what sort of man Governor Keith was , to recommend such a thing . So Franklin ...
... conduct . His father , being a man of sense , flatly refused to furnish money to start a boy of eighteen in an ex- pensive business , and was curious to know what sort of man Governor Keith was , to recommend such a thing . So Franklin ...
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... conducted in the sincere spirit of inquiry after truth , without fondness for dis- pute , or desire of victory ; and , to prevent warmth , all expressions of positiveness in opinions , or direct contradiction , were after some time made ...
... conducted in the sincere spirit of inquiry after truth , without fondness for dis- pute , or desire of victory ; and , to prevent warmth , all expressions of positiveness in opinions , or direct contradiction , were after some time made ...
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... conducted the journal during the imprisonment of his brother , who was not released until he had humbly apolo- gized . The Courant then went on , and was worse than ever , until an order of council was issued for- bidding its ...
... conducted the journal during the imprisonment of his brother , who was not released until he had humbly apolo- gized . The Courant then went on , and was worse than ever , until an order of council was issued for- bidding its ...
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... conduct , no doubt after much reflection while at sea . Towards the close of his life he said of it , " It is the more remarkable as being formed when I was so young and yet being pretty faithfully adhered to quite thro ' to old age ...
... conduct , no doubt after much reflection while at sea . Towards the close of his life he said of it , " It is the more remarkable as being formed when I was so young and yet being pretty faithfully adhered to quite thro ' to old age ...
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... conduct of Governor Keith towards him , and Keith was another free - thinker . His own conduct while under the influence of arguments like those in 87 RELIGION AND MORALS.
... conduct of Governor Keith towards him , and Keith was another free - thinker . His own conduct while under the influence of arguments like those in 87 RELIGION AND MORALS.
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Página 151 - Things, for they may all be blasted without the Blessing of Heaven; and therefore ask that Blessing humbly, and be not uncharitable to those that at present seem to want it, but comfort and help them. Remember Job suffered, and was afterwards prosperous. And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...
Página 362 - often and often in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that sun behind the president without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting; but now, at length, I have the happiness to know that it is a rising, and not a setting sun.
Página 153 - 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 46 - I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the writing excellent and wished if possible to imitate it.
Página 151 - Industry all easy, as Poor Richard says; and He that riseth late must trot all Day, and shall scarce overtake his Business at Night; while Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him...
Página 362 - On the whole, sir, I cannot help expressing a wish that every member of the Convention who may still have objections to it would, with me, on this occasion doubt a little of his own infallibility, and, to make manifest our unanimity, put his name to this instrument.
Página 94 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which, I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me: I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold; as he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper.
Página 151 - Time must be (as Poor RICHARD says) the greatest prodigality ; since, as he elsewhere tells us, Lost time is never found again; and what we call Time enough ! always proves little enough. Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose : so, by diligence, shall we do more with less perplexity. Sloth makes all things difficult, but Industry all things easy...
Página 137 - For instance, my breakfast was a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer with a pewter spoon.
Página 156 - When Abraham sat at his tent door, according to his custom, waiting to entertain strangers, he espied an old man, stooping and leaning on his staff, weary with age and travel, coming towards him, who was an hundred years of age.