The Life of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Written by Himself ; Together with a Number of His Humorous, Moral, and Literary Essays, Chiefly in the Manner of the SpectatorStarr & Niles, 1823 - 300 頁 |
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... , may rise from obscurity to the first eminence and consequence in the world ; but it brings his history no lower than the year 1757 , and I understand that since he sent over · the copy , which I have read , he 6 PREFACE .
... , may rise from obscurity to the first eminence and consequence in the world ; but it brings his history no lower than the year 1757 , and I understand that since he sent over · the copy , which I have read , he 6 PREFACE .
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... consequence , it would , in many cases , not be wholly absurd , that a man should count his vanity among the other sweets of life , and give thanks to providence for the blessing . * And here let me with all humility acknowledge , that ...
... consequence , it would , in many cases , not be wholly absurd , that a man should count his vanity among the other sweets of life , and give thanks to providence for the blessing . * And here let me with all humility acknowledge , that ...
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... consequence , he wished to be known as the author ; because , said he , I hate from my very soul dissimulation : From Sherburne , * where I dwell , I therefore put my name , Your friend , who means you well . PETER FOLGER . My brothers ...
... consequence , he wished to be known as the author ; because , said he , I hate from my very soul dissimulation : From Sherburne , * where I dwell , I therefore put my name , Your friend , who means you well . PETER FOLGER . My brothers ...
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... if he other mechanics , employed at their work ; in order to shore . I have since , in consequence of these visits . I upon some occupation that might retain me on could derived no small pleasure from seeing skilful workmen handle their.
... if he other mechanics , employed at their work ; in order to shore . I have since , in consequence of these visits . I upon some occupation that might retain me on could derived no small pleasure from seeing skilful workmen handle their.
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... consequences . Thus I involved them in difficulties from which they were unable to extricate themselves , and sometimes ob- tained victories , which neither my cause nor my ar- guments merited . This method I continued to employ for ...
... consequences . Thus I involved them in difficulties from which they were unable to extricate themselves , and sometimes ob- tained victories , which neither my cause nor my ar- guments merited . This method I continued to employ for ...
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第 260 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 pas,sions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views.
第 157 頁 - This advice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me; and I often think of it, when I see pride mortified, and misfortunes brought upon people by their carrying their heads too high.
第 232 頁 - We are however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, tho* -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 261 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 232 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 233 頁 - ... he intended to say or has any thing to add, he may rise again and deliver it. To interrupt another, even in common conversation, is reckoned highly indecent.
第 177 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 159 頁 - I might have bought with the rest of the money; and laughed at me so much for my folly, that I cried with vexation; and the reflection gave me more chagrin than the whistle gave me pleasure.
第 177 頁 - It shows, besides, that you are mindful of what you owe; it makes you appear a careful as well as an honest man, and that still increases your credit. Beware of thinking all your own that you possess, and of living accordingly.
第 159 頁 - 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.