The Works of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of His Life Written by Himself Together with Humourous, Moral, and Literary Essays, Chiefly in the Manner of the Spectator : Among which are Several Not in Any American EditionSolomon Wiate, 1815 - 335 頁 |
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... friend , Dr. Franklin , and the circum- stances attending it , deserves my particular gra- titude . The account which he has left of his life will show , in a striking example , how a man by talents , industry , and integrity , may rise ...
... friend , Dr. Franklin , and the circum- stances attending it , deserves my particular gra- titude . The account which he has left of his life will show , in a striking example , how a man by talents , industry , and integrity , may rise ...
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... friends . Í was delighted with the account you gave in your letter of the honours shewn to his memory at Phi ... friend is , that he has contributed much to it . I am , with great respect , Your obliged and very humble servant . RICHARD ...
... friends . Í was delighted with the account you gave in your letter of the honours shewn to his memory at Phi ... friend is , that he has contributed much to it . I am , with great respect , Your obliged and very humble servant . RICHARD ...
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... friends . He had invented a short - hand , which he taught me , but having never made use of it , I have now forgotten it . He was a man of piety , and a constant attendant on the best preachers , whose sermons he took a pleasure in ...
... friends . He had invented a short - hand , which he taught me , but having never made use of it , I have now forgotten it . He was a man of piety , and a constant attendant on the best preachers , whose sermons he took a pleasure in ...
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... friend who means you well , PETER FOLGER . My brothers were all put apprentices to different trades . With respect to ... friends , who as- sured him that I should one day certainly become a man- of letters , confirmed him in this design ...
... friend who means you well , PETER FOLGER . My brothers were all put apprentices to different trades . With respect to ... friends , who as- sured him that I should one day certainly become a man- of letters , confirmed him in this design ...
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... friends , that persons so educated were often poorly provided for , he renounced his first intentions , took me from the grammar school , and sent me to a school for writing and arithmetic , kept by a Mr. George Bromwel , who was a ...
... friends , that persons so educated were often poorly provided for , he renounced his first intentions , took me from the grammar school , and sent me to a school for writing and arithmetic , kept by a Mr. George Bromwel , who was a ...
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第 217 頁 - But you who are wise must know, that different nations have different conceptions of things ; and you will therefore not take it amiss, if our ideas of this kind of education happen not to be the same with yours.
第 217 頁 - We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it: and to show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take great care of their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them.
第 217 頁 - ... in their persons, nor shall their houses or goods be burnt, or otherwise destroyed, nor their fields wasted, by the armed force...
第 243 頁 - I doubt, too, whether any other convention we can obtain, may be able to make a better Constitution; for, when you assemble a number of men, to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men, all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views.
第 244 頁 - ... their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? It therefore astonishes me, sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our councils are confounded, like those of the builders of Babel ; and that our States are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for...
第 222 頁 - And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.
第 163 頁 - Remember that money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on.
第 164 頁 - Remember this. saying, The good paymaster is lord of another man's purse. He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the time he promises, may at any time, and on any occasion, raise all the money his friends can spare. This is sometimes of great use.
第 164 頁 - The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but, if he sees you at a billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day; demands it, before he can receive it, in a lump.
第 285 頁 - They were led by a thread. They had not only a respect, but an affection, for Great Britain, for its laws, its customs and manners, and even a fondness for its fashions, that greatly increased the commerce. Natives of Britain were always treated with particular regard ; to be an Old England-man, was, of itself, a character of some respect, and gave a kind of rank among us.