Benjamin Franklin: His Contribution to the American TraditionBobbs-Merrill, 1953 - 320 pages |
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Page 94
... passed without saying any thing . I should have been as much ashamed at seeing Miss Read , had not her fr [ ien ] ds , de- spairing with reason of my return , after the receipt of my letter , persuaded her to marry another , one Rogers ...
... passed without saying any thing . I should have been as much ashamed at seeing Miss Read , had not her fr [ ien ] ds , de- spairing with reason of my return , after the receipt of my letter , persuaded her to marry another , one Rogers ...
Page 97
... passed on both sides , he gave me the quarter's warning we had stipulated , expressing a wish that he had not been obliged to so long a warning : I told him his wish was unnecessary for I would leave him that instant ; and so taking my ...
... passed on both sides , he gave me the quarter's warning we had stipulated , expressing a wish that he had not been obliged to so long a warning : I told him his wish was unnecessary for I would leave him that instant ; and so taking my ...
Page 148
... passed in his separate club ; the promotion of our particular interests in business by more extensive recommendation , and the increase of our influence in public affairs , and our power of doing good by spreading thro ' the several ...
... passed in his separate club ; the promotion of our particular interests in business by more extensive recommendation , and the increase of our influence in public affairs , and our power of doing good by spreading thro ' the several ...
Contents
PAGE | 27 |
IN THE SERVICE OF THE COMMUNITY | 164 |
INVENTIONS AND APPLICATIONS OF SCIENCE | 189 |
Copyright | |
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acquaintance advantage American tradition Assembly Autobiography Benjamin Franklin BERNARD COHEN Boston called Carl Van Doren character chimney colonies common conductors continued Cotton Mather distemper electricity empiricism England expence experience father fire fire-places Franklin stove Franklin's writings friends gave Gazette give hand heat hospital improvement industry inhabitants inoculation inventions Keimer lately laws letters liberty lightning rod living London Mark Twain means ment Mussulmen nature ness never observed occasion opinion paper parliament Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Gazette Pennsylvania Hospital persons Philadelphia philosophy political Poor Richard says pounds sterling present principles printer proposed published reason Richard Bache sect slaves society soon Stamp Act stoves taxes things thought thousand pounds thro tion took town trade VINDEX virtue warm wealth whole William Heberden wrote