Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 1Mason Brothers, 1864 - 710 pages |
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... Perhaps , he never knows either . Dr. Franklin , moreover , assures us , that , as he wrote his Auto- biography for the instruction of youth , he omitted " all facts and transactions that may not have a tendency to benefit the young ...
... Perhaps , he never knows either . Dr. Franklin , moreover , assures us , that , as he wrote his Auto- biography for the instruction of youth , he omitted " all facts and transactions that may not have a tendency to benefit the young ...
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... perhaps , even then , dedicating the tithe of his sons to the service of the Church . He named him Benjamin , in honor of his brother over the sea , the dyer of Leicester Fields . The record of his birth in the town register , and that ...
... perhaps , even then , dedicating the tithe of his sons to the service of the Church . He named him Benjamin , in honor of his brother over the sea , the dyer of Leicester Fields . The record of his birth in the town register , and that ...
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... perhaps a letter , with a few lines of doggerel , which called forth a joyful response from his uncle : " " T is time for me to throw aside my pen , When hanging sleeves read , write , and rhyme like men , This forward spring foretells ...
... perhaps a letter , with a few lines of doggerel , which called forth a joyful response from his uncle : " " T is time for me to throw aside my pen , When hanging sleeves read , write , and rhyme like men , This forward spring foretells ...
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... Perhaps the idea of this structure was suggested to the youngster's mind by the building of the Long Wharf of Boston , which , after being talked of for some years , was ordered to be built in 1710 . Benjamin , besides being the tithe ...
... Perhaps the idea of this structure was suggested to the youngster's mind by the building of the Long Wharf of Boston , which , after being talked of for some years , was ordered to be built in 1710 . Benjamin , besides being the tithe ...
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... perhaps , was not too in- dustrious , for he tells us that his father often repeated to him the maxim of Solomon : " Seest thou a man diligent in his calling , he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men . " Dr ...
... perhaps , was not too in- dustrious , for he tells us that his father often repeated to him the maxim of Solomon : " Seest thou a man diligent in his calling , he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men . " Dr ...
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Page 47 - O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God : for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
Page 242 - I enter'd upon the execution of this plan for selfexamination, and continu'd it with occasional intermissions for some time. I was surpris'd to find .myself so much fuller of faults than I had imagined ; but I had the satisfaction of seeing them diminish.
Page 165 - 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.
Page 200 - I found it in a china bowl, with a spoon of silver! They had been bought for me without my knowledge by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum of threeand-twenty shillings, for which she had no other excuse or apology to make but that she thought her husband deserved a silver spoon and china bowl as well as any of his neighbors.
Page 203 - The institution soon manifested its utility, was imitated by other towns, and in other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations ; reading became fashionable ; and our people, having no public...
Page 240 - I grew convinced that truth, sincerity, and integrity, in dealings between man and man, were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life; and I formed written resolutions, which still remain in my journal book, to practice them ever while I lived.
Page 173 - I seldom attended any public worship, I had still an opinion of its propriety, and of its utility when rightly conducted, and I regularly paid my annual subscription for the support of the only Presbyterian minister or meeting we had in Philadelphia. He...
Page 418 - Were the face of the earth, he says, vacant of other plants, it might be gradually sowed and overspread with one kind only, as for instance with fennel; and were it empty of other inhabitants, it might in a few ages be replenished from one nation only, as for instance with Englishmen.
Page 488 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white...
Page 461 - But since it is down, my friend, and it may be long before it rises again, let us make as good a night of it as we can. We may still light candles. Frugality and industry will go a great way towards indemnifying us. Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments.