The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author, 第 7 卷Whittemore, Niles, and Hall, 1856 |
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... Children . To Jonathan Shipley . 24 June . 524 Visit at Twyford . - Georgiana Shipley . To Noble Wimberly Jones . 3 July . 526 Land Claims in Georgia . - Peace expected between the Turks and Russians . To Cadwallader Evans . 4 July ...
... Children . To Jonathan Shipley . 24 June . 524 Visit at Twyford . - Georgiana Shipley . To Noble Wimberly Jones . 3 July . 526 Land Claims in Georgia . - Peace expected between the Turks and Russians . To Cadwallader Evans . 4 July ...
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... child , that you would make a good , agreeable woman , and you know you were ever my peculiar favorite . I have been thinking what would be a suitable present for me to make , and for you to re- ceive , as I hear you are grown a ...
... child , that you would make a good , agreeable woman , and you know you were ever my peculiar favorite . I have been thinking what would be a suitable present for me to make , and for you to re- ceive , as I hear you are grown a ...
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... child , and am pleased that the loss is in some measure made up to you by the birth of a second . We have had the smallpox here lately , which raged violently while it lasted . There have been about fifty persons inoculated , who all ...
... child , and am pleased that the loss is in some measure made up to you by the birth of a second . We have had the smallpox here lately , which raged violently while it lasted . There have been about fifty persons inoculated , who all ...
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... child , and both their lives till lately despaired of ; so that all the father's wealth , which every- body thought , a little while ago , had heirs enough , and no one would have given sixpence for the reversion , was in a few weeks ...
... child , and both their lives till lately despaired of ; so that all the father's wealth , which every- body thought , a little while ago , had heirs enough , and no one would have given sixpence for the reversion , was in a few weeks ...
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... child is by this time re- covered . I am your dutiful son . B. FRANKLIN TO MRS . JANE MECOM . - Religion . Charity . DEAREST SISTER JENNY , Philadelphia , 28 July , 1743 . I took your admonition very kindly , and was far from being ...
... child is by this time re- covered . I am your dutiful son . B. FRANKLIN TO MRS . JANE MECOM . - Religion . Charity . DEAREST SISTER JENNY , Philadelphia , 28 July , 1743 . I took your admonition very kindly , and was far from being ...
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第 269 頁 - Go constantly to church, whoever preaches ; the act of devotion in the common prayer book is your principal business there, and if properly attended to, will do more towards amending the heart than Sermons generally can do. For they were composed by men of much greater piety and wisdom than our common composers of sermons can pretend to be...
第 329 頁 - Every man in England seems to consider himself as a piece of a sovereign over America ; seems to jostle himself into the throne with the king, and talks of our subjects in the colonies.
第 36 頁 - Thus you see I am in a fair way of having no other tasks than such as I shall like to give myself, and of enjoying what I look upon as a great happiness, leisure to read, study, make experiments, and converse at large with such ingenious and worthy men as are pleased to honor me with their friendship or acquaintance, on such points as may produce something for the common benefit of mankind, uninterrupted by the little cares and fatigues of business.
第 246 頁 - Of all the enviable things England has, I envy it most its people. Why should that petty island, which compar'd to America, is but like a steppingstone in a brook, scarce enough of it above water to keep one's shoes dry...
第 75 頁 - He that for giving a draught of water to a thirsty person, should expect to be paid with a good plantation, would be modest in. his demands, compared with those who think they deserve heaven for the little good they do on earth.
第 73 頁 - His outward freedom : tyranny must be ; Though to the tyrant thereby no excuse. Yet sometimes nations will decline so low From virtue, which is reason, that no wrong, But justice, and some fatal curse annex'd, Deprives them of their outward liberty ; Their inward lost : witness the irreverent son Of him who built the ark ; who, for the shame Done to his father, heard this heavy curse, Servant of servants, on his vicious race.
第 268 頁 - I have in a private capacity given just cause of offence to any one whatever), yet they are enemies, and very bitter ones; and you must expect their enmity will extend in some degree to you, so that your slightest indiscretions will be magnified into crimes, in order the more sensibly to wound and afflict me. It is therefore the more necessary for you to be extremely circumspect in all your behaviour, that no advantage may be given to their malevolence.
第 290 頁 - ... cod, like other fish, when attacked by their enemies, fly into any water where they can be safest; that whales, when they have a mind to eat cod, pursue them wherever they fly; and that the grand leap of the whale in the chase up the Falls of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.
第 75 頁 - I do not look upon myself as conferring favors, but as paying debts. In my travels, and since my settlement, I have received much kindness from men to whom I shall never have any opportunity of making the least direct return ; and numberless mercies from God, who is infinitely above being benefited by our services.
第 72 頁 - In short, unless the stream of their importation could be turned from this to other colonies, as you very judiciously propose, they will soon so outnumber us that all the advantages we have will, in my opinion, be not able to preserve our language, and even our government will become precarious.