Life of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself, Volume 1Lippincott, 1875 |
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... never finished , terminated with his arrival . in England , in 1757 , as agent of the Colony of Penn- sylvania . He was then fifty - one years of age , and just entering upon that part of his public career in which his marvellous ...
... never finished , terminated with his arrival . in England , in 1757 , as agent of the Colony of Penn- sylvania . He was then fifty - one years of age , and just entering upon that part of his public career in which his marvellous ...
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... never more than five thousand copies printed , if so many ; which were absorbed more than thirty years ago . It is quite safe to say that , of the forty millions of the present generation of Americans , not one in a thousand has ever ...
... never more than five thousand copies printed , if so many ; which were absorbed more than thirty years ago . It is quite safe to say that , of the forty millions of the present generation of Americans , not one in a thousand has ever ...
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... never see , any evi- dence of this kind of degeneracy in our country . It is certainly true that Franklin is relatively less read now than earlier in this century , and , as a natural conse- quence , the proportion of young men who ...
... never see , any evi- dence of this kind of degeneracy in our country . It is certainly true that Franklin is relatively less read now than earlier in this century , and , as a natural conse- quence , the proportion of young men who ...
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... never more than five thousand copies printed , if so many ; which were absorbed more than thirty years ago . It is quite safe to say that , of the forty millions of the present generation of Americans , not one in a thousand has ever ...
... never more than five thousand copies printed , if so many ; which were absorbed more than thirty years ago . It is quite safe to say that , of the forty millions of the present generation of Americans , not one in a thousand has ever ...
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... never see , any evi- dence of this kind of degeneracy in our country . It is certainly true that Franklin is relatively less read now than earlier in this century , and , as a natural conse- quence , the proportion of young men who ...
... never see , any evi- dence of this kind of degeneracy in our country . It is certainly true that Franklin is relatively less read now than earlier in this century , and , as a natural conse- quence , the proportion of young men who ...
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Page 145 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Page 151 - ORDER Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4 RESOLUTION Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
Page 79 - Street wharf, near the boat I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water; and being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther.
Page 64 - ... in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should occur to me. Then I compared my ' Spectator ' with the original, discovered some of my faults and corrected them.
Page 177 - The request was fortunately made to perhaps the only man in the company who had the firmness not to be affected by the preacher. His answer was, "At any other time, friend Hopkinson, I would lend to thee freely ; but not now, for thee seems to be out of thy right senses.
Page 103 - Water-American, as they called me, was stronger than themselves, who drank strong beer! We had an alehouse boy who attended always in the house to supply the workmen. My companion at the press drank every day a pint before breakfast, a pint at breakfast with his bread and cheese, a pint between breakfast and dinner, a pint at dinner, a pint in the afternoon about six o'clock, and another when he had done his day's work.
Page 67 - While I was intent on improving my language, I met with an English Grammar (I think it was Greenwood's), at the end of which there were two little sketches of the arts of rhetoric and logic, the latter finishing with a specimen of a dispute in the Socratic method ; and soon after I procured Xenophon's Memorable Things of Socrates, wherein there are many instances of the same method.
Page 71 - Philadelphia, with several people in her. They took me in, and, as there was no wind, we rowed all the way; and about midnight, not having yet seen the city, some of the company were confident we must have passed it, and would row no farther...
Page 78 - I asked for a three-penny loaf, and was told they had none such. So not considering or knowing the difference of money, and the greater cheapness nor the names of his bread, I bade him give me three-penny worth of any sort.
Page 157 - 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.