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, Volume 1Hilliard, Gray,, 1840 |
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... written for the press ; and the fame of authorship appears rarely to have been among the motives by which he was ... writing , till he attained a mastery over the language , which has raised his name to the first rank in English ...
... written for the press ; and the fame of authorship appears rarely to have been among the motives by which he was ... writing , till he attained a mastery over the language , which has raised his name to the first rank in English ...
Page vii
... written by himself . It had lately been published in French , a transla- tion having been made from an original manuscript , which Dr. Franklin had presented to his friend , M. Le Veillard . It was now retranslated into Eng- lish by a ...
... written by himself . It had lately been published in French , a transla- tion having been made from an original manuscript , which Dr. Franklin had presented to his friend , M. Le Veillard . It was now retranslated into Eng- lish by a ...
Page viii
... written since the publication of Mr. Vaughan's edition . Another re- translation of the French version of the autobiogra- phy was published the same year in London , which is described in the Monthly Review as possessing little merit ...
... written since the publication of Mr. Vaughan's edition . Another re- translation of the French version of the autobiogra- phy was published the same year in London , which is described in the Monthly Review as possessing little merit ...
Page xii
... the present work . In short , no printed paper has been omitted , which is known to have been written by Franklin . The Editor has been fortunate , also , in obtaining manuscript materials . His researches , as well in the xii PREFACE .
... the present work . In short , no printed paper has been omitted , which is known to have been written by Franklin . The Editor has been fortunate , also , in obtaining manuscript materials . His researches , as well in the xii PREFACE .
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... written on the business of this agency , have before been published . Copies of all that remain in the Secretary's office have now been obtained , and they are printed in these volumes . From another source some very interesting letters ...
... written on the business of this agency , have before been published . Copies of all that remain in the Secretary's office have now been obtained , and they are printed in these volumes . From another source some very interesting letters ...
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Page 102 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men...
Page 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!
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 106 - ORDER Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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
Page 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...
Page 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.