Works of the Late Doctor Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of His Life Written by Himself, Together with Essays, Humorous, Moral & Literary, Chiefly in the Manner of the Spectator...G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1793 - 316 頁 |
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第 12 頁
... still at times fome flattering hopes of recovering it . Accidents may increase those hopes , and encourage dan- gerous attempts . A breach between us and France would infallibly bring the English again upon our backs : and yet we we ...
... still at times fome flattering hopes of recovering it . Accidents may increase those hopes , and encourage dan- gerous attempts . A breach between us and France would infallibly bring the English again upon our backs : and yet we we ...
第 68 頁
... still thinking it fomething extraordinary that the fun fhould rise fo early , I looked into the almanack , where I found it to be the hour given for his rifing on that day . I looked for- ward too , and found he was to rife ftill ...
... still thinking it fomething extraordinary that the fun fhould rise fo early , I looked into the almanack , where I found it to be the hour given for his rifing on that day . I looked for- ward too , and found he was to rife ftill ...
第 101 頁
... still , as opening sense her dictates wrote , Fair virtue put a feal , or vice a blot . The thought was happy , pertinent , and true ; Methinks a genius might the plan pursue . I ( can you pardon my presumption ) , I— No wit , no genius ...
... still , as opening sense her dictates wrote , Fair virtue put a feal , or vice a blot . The thought was happy , pertinent , and true ; Methinks a genius might the plan pursue . I ( can you pardon my presumption ) , I— No wit , no genius ...
第 111 頁
... this fingular mode of fwimming , though I think it not impoffible to cross in this manner from Dover to Calais . The packet - boat , however , is still prefer- able . NEW NEW MODE OF BATHING . EXTRACTS OF LETTERS TO M. ESSAYS . III.
... this fingular mode of fwimming , though I think it not impoffible to cross in this manner from Dover to Calais . The packet - boat , however , is still prefer- able . NEW NEW MODE OF BATHING . EXTRACTS OF LETTERS TO M. ESSAYS . III.
第 115 頁
... still live for we know not how many ages . The facts which are cited in fup- port of this opinion , are too numerous and I 2 and too circumftantial not to deserve a certain degree of ESSAYS . 115 Obfervations on the generally prevail ...
... still live for we know not how many ages . The facts which are cited in fup- port of this opinion , are too numerous and I 2 and too circumftantial not to deserve a certain degree of ESSAYS . 115 Obfervations on the generally prevail ...
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第 14 頁 - I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers and sisters and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth.
第 184 頁 - We have had some experience of it — several of our young people were formerly brought up at the colleges of the northern provinces; they were instructed in all your sciences, but when they came back to us, they were bad runners, ignorant of every means of living in the woods, unable to bear either cold or hunger, knew neither how to build a cabin, take a deer, or kill an enemy, spoke our language imperfectly, were therefore neither fit for hunters, warriors, nor counsellors; they were totally good...
第 56 頁 - Remember that money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned is six, turned again it is seven and threepence, and so on, till it becomes an hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. He that kills a breeding sow destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown destroys all that it might have produced, even...
第 232 頁 - With regard to encouragements for strangers from government, they are really only what are derived from good laws and liberty. Strangers are welcome, because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old inhabitants are not jealous of them ; the laws protect them sufficiently, so that they have no need of the patronage of great men; and every one will enjoy securely the profits of his industry. But, if he does not bring a fortune with him, he must work and be industrious to live. One or...
第 15 頁 - ... but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth...
第 182 頁 - Nations would send down half a dozen of their sons to that college, the government would take care that they should be well provided for, and instructed in all the learning of the white people.
第 15 頁 - I saved my money. As I grew up, came into the world, and observed the actions of men, I thought I met with many, very many, who gave too much for the whistle.
第 56 頁 - Remember that credit is money. If a man lets his money lie in my hands after it is due, he gives me the interest, or so much as I can make of it, during that time. This amounts to a considerable sum where a man has good and large credit, and makes good use of it.
第 234 頁 - Multitudes of poor people from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Germany, have by this means in a few years become wealthy farmers, who, in their own countries, where all the lands are fully occupied, and the wages of labour low, could never have emerged from the poor condition wherein they were born.
第 185 頁 - The Business of the Women is to take exact notice of what passes, imprint it in their Memories, for they have no Writing, and communicate it to their Children. They are the Records of the Council, and they preserve...