Benjamin Franklin: His LifeGinn & Company, 1899 |
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... friend the Bishop of St. Asaph , at his country house in Twyford , in the South of England . He ends that part of his autobiog- raphy about the time of his marriage in 1730 , when he was twenty - four . He wrote nothing more until ...
... friend the Bishop of St. Asaph , at his country house in Twyford , in the South of England . He ends that part of his autobiog- raphy about the time of his marriage in 1730 , when he was twenty - four . He wrote nothing more until ...
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... friend M. le Veillard , formerly Mayor of Passy , through whose solicitation , mainly , he had prepared so much of the ... friends in Europe by Dr. Franklin , was translated into French and pub- lished at Paris ( 1791 ) . This was ...
... friend M. le Veillard , formerly Mayor of Passy , through whose solicitation , mainly , he had prepared so much of the ... friends in Europe by Dr. Franklin , was translated into French and pub- lished at Paris ( 1791 ) . This was ...
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... friend , but he was one of the few pre- lates in the House of Lords who openly defended the cause of the American Colonies against those tyrannical measures of the Crown which ultimately caused the Revolution . 2 Dear Son : William ...
... friend , but he was one of the few pre- lates in the House of Lords who openly defended the cause of the American Colonies against those tyrannical measures of the Crown which ultimately caused the Revolution . 2 Dear Son : William ...
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... friends and relations , of which the following , sent to me , is a specimen.2 He had formed a short - hand of his ... friend ; Like judge and witness this thy acts attend . In heart with bended knee , alone , adore None but the Three in ...
... friends and relations , of which the following , sent to me , is a specimen.2 He had formed a short - hand of his ... friend ; Like judge and witness this thy acts attend . In heart with bended knee , alone , adore None but the Three in ...
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... Friends [ Quakers ] , or any who differed from them , in what they considered essential points of faith , to remain in their colony , though they did not oppose their going else- where and establishing colonies of their own . Thus the ...
... Friends [ Quakers ] , or any who differed from them , in what they considered essential points of faith , to remain in their colony , though they did not oppose their going else- where and establishing colonies of their own . Thus the ...
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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...