Benjamin Franklin, Self-revealed: A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on His Own Writings, Volume 1G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1917 |
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... virtues as well as the plus grand philosophe du siècle ; for the French were but mad idolaters where he was concerned ... virtue , or greatness . " In an- other place , Vaughan speaks of the " affection , gratitude and veneration " he ...
... virtues as well as the plus grand philosophe du siècle ; for the French were but mad idolaters where he was concerned ... virtue , or greatness . " In an- other place , Vaughan speaks of the " affection , gratitude and veneration " he ...
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... Virtues , just below the words , in which , under the head of " Chastity , " he deprecates the use of " venery " to the ... virtue as much regarded in this declin- ing age as knowledge . " Less formal was the 20 Benjamin Franklin Self ...
... Virtues , just below the words , in which , under the head of " Chastity , " he deprecates the use of " venery " to the ... virtue as much regarded in this declin- ing age as knowledge . " Less formal was the 20 Benjamin Franklin Self ...
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... Virtue , despite occasional stumblings and slips , in realizing his dream of moral perfection as to be able to write compla- cently upon the margin of the Autobiography , " nothing so likely to make a man's fortune as virtue . " It is ...
... Virtue , despite occasional stumblings and slips , in realizing his dream of moral perfection as to be able to write compla- cently upon the margin of the Autobiography , " nothing so likely to make a man's fortune as virtue . " It is ...
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... virtue the close attention of a week was successively given by him . If an offence was committed by him on a certain day , it was entered by a little black mark under that date opposite the affronted virtue . The object was to so ...
... virtue the close attention of a week was successively given by him . If an offence was committed by him on a certain day , it was entered by a little black mark under that date opposite the affronted virtue . The object was to so ...
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... virtue . In his seventy - ninth year the former tradesman sat down to count deliberately his moral gains . To his " little artifice " with the blessing of God he owed , he felt , the constant felicity of his life until that time . To ...
... virtue . In his seventy - ninth year the former tradesman sat down to count deliberately his moral gains . To his " little artifice " with the blessing of God he owed , he felt , the constant felicity of his life until that time . To ...
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Page 114 - 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. But the work shall not be lost, For it will, as he believed, appear once more, In a new and more elegant edition, Revised and corrected By THE AUTHOR.
Page 62 - 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. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver ; and he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket...
Page 398 - MR. STRAHAN, You are a member of parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. — You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our people. — Look upon your hands! — They are stained with the blood of your relations ! — You and I were long friends: — You are now my enemy, — and I am • Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
Page 267 - At his table he liked to have, as often as he could, some sensible friend or neighbour to converse with. and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse, which might tend to improve the minds of his children. By this means he turned our attention to what was good, just, and prudent in the conduct of life...
Page 188 - For want of a nail, the shoe was lost, For want of a shoe, the horse was lost, For want of a horse, the rider was lost, For want of a rider, the battle was lost.
Page 109 - The rapid Progress true Science now makes, occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born so soon. It is impossible to imagine the Height to which may be carried, in a thousand years, the Power of Man over Matter.
Page 267 - In the latter, indeed, he was never employed, the numerous family he had to educate and the straitness of his circumstances keeping him close to his trade ; but I remember well his being frequently visited by leading people, who consulted him for his opinion in affairs of the town or of the church he belonged to, and showed a good deal of respect for his judgment and advice...
Page 338 - 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 468 - I am very sorry, that you intend soon to leave our hemisphere. America has sent us many good things, gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo, &c. ; but you are the first philosopher, and indeed the first great man of letters for whom we are beholden to her.
Page 211 - We have an English proverb that says, "He that would thrive, must ask his wife.