Benjamin Franklin: His LifeGinn & Company, 1899 |
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... on his first mission , July 27 , 1757 . During the last year of his life , 1789-1790 , he again took up his autobiography and added a few pages , giving an ac- count of his conference with the Pennsylvania Proprietaries in London.
... on his first mission , July 27 , 1757 . During the last year of his life , 1789-1790 , he again took up his autobiography and added a few pages , giving an ac- count of his conference with the Pennsylvania Proprietaries in London.
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His Life Benjamin Franklin. count of his conference with the Pennsylvania Proprietaries in London late in the summer of 1757 , at which point he ab- ruptly breaks off his work . These closing pages were first printed in English by Mr ...
His Life Benjamin Franklin. count of his conference with the Pennsylvania Proprietaries in London late in the summer of 1757 , at which point he ab- ruptly breaks off his work . These closing pages were first printed in English by Mr ...
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... Pennsylvania Gazette . § 7. Franklin's Plan of Life . § 8. Franklin chosen Clerk of the Legislature , and appointed Deputy Postmaster - General § 9. Franklin chosen a Member of the Legislature § 10. Franklin appointed Postmaster ...
... Pennsylvania Gazette . § 7. Franklin's Plan of Life . § 8. Franklin chosen Clerk of the Legislature , and appointed Deputy Postmaster - General § 9. Franklin chosen a Member of the Legislature § 10. Franklin appointed Postmaster ...
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... Pennsylvania , in which they also maintained that no one believing " in one Almighty God " was to be annoyed on account of his faith . 1 The following are the preceding lines : - I am for peace and not for war , And that's the reason ...
... Pennsylvania , in which they also maintained that no one believing " in one Almighty God " was to be annoyed on account of his faith . 1 The following are the preceding lines : - I am for peace and not for war , And that's the reason ...
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... Pennsylvania , but removed from thence upon the quarrel of George Keith . He could give me no employment , having little to do , and help enough already ; but says he , " My son at Philadelphia has lately lost his principal hand ...
... Pennsylvania , but removed from thence upon the quarrel of George Keith . He could give me no employment , having little to do , and help enough already ; but says he , " My son at Philadelphia has lately lost his principal hand ...
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第 107 頁 - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3. — ORDER. Let all your things have their places ; let each part of your business have its time. 4. — RESOLUTION. Resolve to perform what you ought ; perform without fail what you resolve.
第 290 頁 - In this situation of this assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings?
第 17 頁 - Essays to do Good, which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life.
第 138 頁 - 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 to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver ; and he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket wholly into the collector's dish, — gold and all.
第 106 頁 - It was about this time I conceiv'd the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection. I wish'd to live without committing any fault at any time ; I would conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other.
第 296 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. But the work shall not be lost, For it will, as he believed, appear once more, In a new and more elegant edition, Revised and corrected By THE AUTHOR.
第 34 頁 - Street wharf, near the boat I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water ; and, being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther. Thus...
第 277 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 33 頁 - ... the shore, got into a creek, landed near an old fence, with the rails of which we made a fire, the night being cold, in October, and there we remained till daylight. Then one of the company knew the place to be Cooper's Creek, a little above Philadelphia, which we saw as soon as we got out of the creek, and arrived there about eight or nine o'clock on the Sunday morning, and landed at the Market Street wharf.
第 11 頁 - I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the church. My early readiness in learning to read (which must have been very early, as I do not remember when I could not read) and the opinion of all his friends that I should certainly make a good scholar encouraged him in this purpose of his. My uncle Benjamin, too, approved of it, and proposed to give me all his shorthand volumes of sermons, I suppose as a stock...