Benjamin Franklin: His Contribution to the American TraditionBobbs-Merrill, 1953 - 320 pages |
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Page 120
... respect as I found them more or less mixed with other articles which without any tendency to inspire , promote or confirm morality , served principally to divide us & make us unfriendly to one an- other . This respect to all , with an ...
... respect as I found them more or less mixed with other articles which without any tendency to inspire , promote or confirm morality , served principally to divide us & make us unfriendly to one an- other . This respect to all , with an ...
Page 131
... respect to or- der ; and now I am grown old , and my memory bad , I feel very sensibly the want of it . But , on the whole , tho ' I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining , but fell far short of it , yet I ...
... respect to or- der ; and now I am grown old , and my memory bad , I feel very sensibly the want of it . But , on the whole , tho ' I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining , but fell far short of it , yet I ...
Page 161
... respecting the disposi- tion and management of the donation to the inhabitants of Boston , I would have observed respecting that to the inhabitants of ... respect to that of the inhabitants of Boston and Self - Improvement and Mutual Aid 161.
... respecting the disposi- tion and management of the donation to the inhabitants of Boston , I would have observed respecting that to the inhabitants of ... respect to that of the inhabitants of Boston and Self - Improvement and Mutual Aid 161.
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