Benjamin Franklin: His LifeGinn, 1888 - 311 páginas |
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... whole , gives a picture of the Colonial , Revolutionary , and Constitutional periods of our history , such as can be found in no other book , and the autobiographical part has a personal interest for every American who cares to know how ...
... whole , gives a picture of the Colonial , Revolutionary , and Constitutional periods of our history , such as can be found in no other book , and the autobiographical part has a personal interest for every American who cares to know how ...
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... whole appeared to me as written with a good deal of decent plainness and manly freedom . The six concluding lines I remember , though I have forgotten the two first of the stanza ; but the purport of them was that his censures proceeded ...
... whole appeared to me as written with a good deal of decent plainness and manly freedom . The six concluding lines I remember , though I have forgotten the two first of the stanza ; but the purport of them was that his censures proceeded ...
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... whole by myself with great ease . I also read Seller's and Shermy's books of Navigation , and became acquainted with the little geom- etry they contain ; but never proceeded far in that science . And I read about this time Locke On ...
... whole by myself with great ease . I also read Seller's and Shermy's books of Navigation , and became acquainted with the little geom- etry they contain ; but never proceeded far in that science . And I read about this time Locke On ...
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... whole life . " — Franklin . 3 Imprisoned : this , says Sparks , was probably the first transaction , in the American colonies , relating to the freedom of the press ; and it is not less remarkable for the assumption of power on the part ...
... whole life . " — Franklin . 3 Imprisoned : this , says Sparks , was probably the first transaction , in the American colonies , relating to the freedom of the press ; and it is not less remarkable for the assumption of power on the part ...
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... whole stock of cash consisted of a Dutch dollar , 1 and about a shilling in copper.2 The latter I gave the people of the boat for my passage , who at first refused it , on account of my rowing ; but I insisted on their taking it . A man ...
... whole stock of cash consisted of a Dutch dollar , 1 and about a shilling in copper.2 The latter I gave the people of the boat for my passage , who at first refused it , on account of my rowing ; but I insisted on their taking it . A man ...
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accordingly acquaintance affairs afterwards America answer Assembly attend began BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Boston Britain brought called captain colonies continued currency defense dispute Ecton endeavor England English eral father favor Fort Duquesne France Franklin French friends gave give GOUT governor hands heard honor horses hundred Indians inhabitants intention Keimer king length letters Little Britain lived lodging London Lord Lord Loudoun means ment never obtained occasion opinion paid paper Paxton Boys Pennsylvania perhaps Philadelphia poor porringer pounds currency pounds sterling printed printer printing-house proposed proprietaries province Quakers Ralph refused sailed says sect sent shillings ship soon Stamp Act street thing thought thousand pounds tion told took town treaty UNITE OR DIE virtue waggons William Penn writing wrote young
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Página 296 - 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.
Página 290 - In this situation of this assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings?
Página 17 - Essays to do Good, which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life.
Página 138 - 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 wholly into the collector's dish, — gold and all.
Página 106 - It was about this time I conceiv'd the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection. I wish'd to live without committing any fault at any time ; I would conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other.
Página 34 - Street wharf, near the boat I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water ; and, being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther. Thus...
Página 277 - When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly employing himself in political bustles, neglecting his own affairs, and ruining them by that neglect, He pays, indeed, said I, too much for his whistle.
Página 103 - 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 three-and-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.
Página 33 - ... the shore, got into a creek, landed near an old fence, with the rails of which we made a fire, the night being cold, in October, and there we remained till daylight. Then one of the company knew the place to be Cooper's Creek, a little above Philadelphia, which we saw as soon as we got out of the creek, and arrived there about eight or nine o'clock on the Sunday morning, and landed at the Market Street wharf.
Página 11 - 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 give me all his shorthand volumes of sermons, I suppose as a stock...