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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... experiments , while the idea I have con- ceived has been fresh and strongly impressed on my imagination . My father at length decided that I should be a cut- ter , and I was placed for some days upon trial with my cousin Samuel , son of ...
... experiments , while the idea I have con- ceived has been fresh and strongly impressed on my imagination . My father at length decided that I should be a cut- ter , and I was placed for some days upon trial with my cousin Samuel , son of ...
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... experiments , with all the ardor and thirst for discovery which characterized the philosophers of that day . Of all the branches of experimental philosophy , electricity had been least explored . The attractive power of amber is men ...
... experiments , with all the ardor and thirst for discovery which characterized the philosophers of that day . Of all the branches of experimental philosophy , electricity had been least explored . The attractive power of amber is men ...
第 100 頁
... experiments ; in which they demonstrated , that electricity may be communicated from one body to another , even without being in contact , and in this way may be conducted to a great distance . Mr. Gray afterwards found , that , by ...
... experiments ; in which they demonstrated , that electricity may be communicated from one body to another , even without being in contact , and in this way may be conducted to a great distance . Mr. Gray afterwards found , that , by ...
第 102 頁
... experiment . The plan which he had originally proposed , was , to erect on some high tower , or other elevated place , a centry box , from which should rise a pointed iron rod , insulated by being fixed in a cake of resin . Electrified ...
... experiment . The plan which he had originally proposed , was , to erect on some high tower , or other elevated place , a centry box , from which should rise a pointed iron rod , insulated by being fixed in a cake of resin . Electrified ...
第 103 頁
... experiments in philosophy . He placed himself under a shed to avoid the rain . His kite was raised . A thunder cloud passed over it . No signs of electricity appeared . He almost despaired of success ; when suddenly he observed the ...
... experiments in philosophy . He placed himself under a shed to avoid the rain . His kite was raised . A thunder cloud passed over it . No signs of electricity appeared . He almost despaired of success ; when suddenly he observed the ...
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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.