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... tion . " Honor thy father and mother - i . e . live so as to be an honor to them tho ' they are dead , " he made Poor Richard advise his readers , and for once preacher. FRANKLIN'S MONUMENT TO HIS PARENTS . Granary Burying - ground ...
... tion . " Honor thy father and mother - i . e . live so as to be an honor to them tho ' they are dead , " he made Poor Richard advise his readers , and for once preacher. FRANKLIN'S MONUMENT TO HIS PARENTS . Granary Burying - ground ...
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... is at Conneticut my bind Love to Brother and Except the same your self from your Louery sister Mary Findin LETTER OF MARY FRANKLIN . In American Philosophical Society , Philadelphia , Pa . tion , and when a sister once appealed to him.
... is at Conneticut my bind Love to Brother and Except the same your self from your Louery sister Mary Findin LETTER OF MARY FRANKLIN . In American Philosophical Society , Philadelphia , Pa . tion , and when a sister once appealed to him.
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Paul Leicester Ford. tion , and when a sister once appealed to him to espouse her side of a disagreement , he replied : " If I were to set myself up as a judge . . . between you and your brother's widow and children , how unqualified ...
Paul Leicester Ford. tion , and when a sister once appealed to him to espouse her side of a disagreement , he replied : " If I were to set myself up as a judge . . . between you and your brother's widow and children , how unqualified ...
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... tion . " She sought his aid in securing the promotion of her son , then in the British navy - a peculiar request , considering Franklin's relations , or lack of relations , at the moment , with the British government . Toward another ...
... tion . " She sought his aid in securing the promotion of her son , then in the British navy - a peculiar request , considering Franklin's relations , or lack of relations , at the moment , with the British government . Toward another ...
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Paul Leicester Ford. and finally , with his father's " consent and approba- tion , " he married , so Franklin states , " a very agree- able West Indian lady . " Meantime , William Franklin had secured the appointment as governor of New ...
Paul Leicester Ford. and finally , with his father's " consent and approba- tion , " he married , so Franklin states , " a very agree- able West Indian lady . " Meantime , William Franklin had secured the appointment as governor of New ...
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Página 109 - 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 coppers.
Página 113 - We have had some experience of it : several of our young people were formerly brought up at the colleges of the northern provinces ; they were instructed in all your sciences ; but when they came back to us, they were bad runners ; ignorant of every means of living in the woods; unable to bear either cold or hunger; knew neither how to build a cabin, take a deer, or kill an enemy ; spoke our language imperfectly ; were therefore neither fit for hunters, warriors, nor counsellors ; they were totally...
Página 393 - Don't give too much for the whistle ; and I saved my money.
Página 143 - AB, profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ, his Eternal Son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit, one God, blessed for evermore ; and do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration.
Página 90 - Tryon's manner of preparing some of his dishes, such as boiling potatoes or rice, making hasty pudding, and a few others, and then proposed to my brother, that if he would give me, weekly, half the money he paid for my board, I would board myself. He instantly agreed to it, and I presently found that I could save half what he paid me.
Página 220 - By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.
Página 217 - Tragedy, and contained an account of the drowning of Captain Worthilake, with his two daughters ; the other was a sailor's song, on the taking of Teach (or Blackbeard), the pirate.
Página 220 - I took some of the tales and turned them into verse ; and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. I also sometimes jumbled my collections of hints into confusion, and after some weeks endeavored to reduce them into the best order, before I began to form the full sentences and compleat the paper.
Página 170 - Here is my creed. I believe in one God, the creator of the universe. That He governs it by His providence. That He ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable service we render to Him is doing good to His other children. That the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this.
Página 221 - During my brother's confinement, which I resented a good deal, notwithstanding our private differences, I had the management of the paper; and I made bold to give our rulers some rubs in it, which my brother took very kindly, while others began to consider me in an unfavorable light, as a young genius that had a turn for libelling and satire.