Lives of Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of AmericaD. Appleton, 1850 - 356 頁 |
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第 32 頁
... Pennsylvania Gazette , owe their origin to the discussions of this Junto . With the means for study furnished to him by this library , he began to make amends for the want of an early education , by applying himself , during the hours ...
... Pennsylvania Gazette , owe their origin to the discussions of this Junto . With the means for study furnished to him by this library , he began to make amends for the want of an early education , by applying himself , during the hours ...
第 33 頁
... Pennsylvania Gazette , " is worthy of all admiration and imitation . " In the conduct of my newspaper , " he remarks , " I carefully excluded all libelling and personal abuse , which is of late years become so disgraceful to our country ...
... Pennsylvania Gazette , " is worthy of all admiration and imitation . " In the conduct of my newspaper , " he remarks , " I carefully excluded all libelling and personal abuse , which is of late years become so disgraceful to our country ...
第 41 頁
... Pennsylvania , " which he distributed without charge , to the principal inhabitants . This pamphlet , written in his usual plain and forcible style , set forth the want and advantages of education , and laid down a plan of instruction ...
... Pennsylvania , " which he distributed without charge , to the principal inhabitants . This pamphlet , written in his usual plain and forcible style , set forth the want and advantages of education , and laid down a plan of instruction ...
第 42 頁
... Pennsylvania . " I have been continued one of the trustees , " adds Franklin , " from the beginning , now near forty years , and have had the very great pleasure of seeing a number of the youth , who have received their education in it ...
... Pennsylvania . " I have been continued one of the trustees , " adds Franklin , " from the beginning , now near forty years , and have had the very great pleasure of seeing a number of the youth , who have received their education in it ...
第 43 頁
James Wynne. ÆT . 45. ] PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL . 43 " At warmly the project of establishing an hospital , but wherever he went he was coldly met with an equivocal answer . length , " says Franklin , " he came to me with the compliment ...
James Wynne. ÆT . 45. ] PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL . 43 " At warmly the project of establishing an hospital , but wherever he went he was coldly met with an equivocal answer . length , " says Franklin , " he came to me with the compliment ...
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第 294 頁 - A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law. it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either expressly, or as incidental to its very existence.
第 17 頁 - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father ; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.
第 128 頁 - Thus I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best.
第 35 頁 - 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 tc soften, and concluded to give the copper.
第 13 頁 - I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the writing excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it.
第 15 頁 - I was excited to try my hand among them; but being still a boy, and suspecting that my brother would object to printing anything of mine in his paper if he knew it to be mine, I contrived to disguise my hand, and writing an anonymous paper, I put it in at night under the door of the printing-house.
第 15 頁 - They read it, commented on it in my hearing, and I had the exquisite pleasure of finding it met with their approbation, and that, in their different guesses at the author, none were named but men of some character among us for learning and ingenuity.
第 152 頁 - Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled...
第 291 頁 - The question, whether an act, repugnant to the constitution, can become the law of the land, is a question deeply interesting to the United States; but, happily, not of an intricacy proportioned to its interest. It seems only necessary to recognize certain principles, supposed to have been long and well established, to decide it. That the people have an original right to establish for their future government, such principles as, in their opinion, shall most conduce to their own happiness, is the...
第 15 頁 - I suppose that I was rather lucky in my judges, and that they were not really so very good as I then believed them to be.* Encouraged, however, by this attempt, I wrote and sent in the same way to the press several other pieces that were equally approved ; and I kept my secret till...