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America appeared arrived asked Assembly began Benjamin Boston brother brought called carried cause colonies common continued desire effect electricity England English experiment father four Franklin friends gave give Governor half hand happy head heard honor hundred interest John Keimer kind king land late laws learned less letters lived London Lord manner matter means mind months nature never observed occasion once opinion passed Pennsylvania perhaps person Philadelphia pleasure poor pounds present printed printer proposed province published Quakers reason received remark replied respect says sent shillings ship soon Street taken thing thought thousand took town truth virtue week whole writing wrote young
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第 47 頁 - O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God : for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
第 242 頁 - I enter'd upon the execution of this plan for selfexamination, and continu'd it with occasional intermissions for some time. I was surpris'd to find .myself so much fuller of faults than I had imagined ; but I had the satisfaction of seeing them diminish.
第 165 頁 - 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.
第 200 頁 - 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 threeand-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.
第 203 頁 - The institution soon manifested its utility, was imitated by other towns, and in other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations ; reading became fashionable ; and our people, having no public...
第 240 頁 - I grew convinced that truth, sincerity, and integrity, in dealings between man and man, were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life; and I formed written resolutions, which still remain in my journal book, to practice them ever while I lived.
第 173 頁 - I seldom attended any public worship, I had still an opinion of its propriety, and of its utility when rightly conducted, and I regularly paid my annual subscription for the support of the only Presbyterian minister or meeting we had in Philadelphia. He...
第 418 頁 - Were the face of the earth, he says, vacant of other plants, it might be gradually sowed and overspread with one kind only, as for instance with fennel; and were it empty of other inhabitants, it might in a few ages be replenished from one nation only, as for instance with Englishmen.
第 488 頁 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white...
第 461 頁 - But since it is down, my friend, and it may be long before it rises again, let us make as good a night of it as we can. We may still light candles. Frugality and industry will go a great way towards indemnifying us. Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments.
書目資訊
| 書名 | Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, 第 1 卷 Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, James Parton |
| 作者 | James Parton |
| 出版者 | Mason Brothers, 1864 |
| 來源： | 哈佛大學 |
| 已數位化 | 2006年7月26日 |
| ISBN | 0608407399, 9780608407395 |
| 頁數 | 710 頁 |
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