Benjamin Franklin: His Autobiography: With a Narrative of His Public Life and ServicesHarper & Brothers, 1849 - 549 頁 |
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第 137 頁 - made a little book, in which I allotted a page for each of the virtues. I ruled each page with red ink, so as to have seven columns, one for each day of the week, marking each column with a letter for the day. I crossed these columns with thirteen red
第 140 頁 - there's a power above us (And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works), He must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy." Another from Cicero,
第 49 頁 - got to Philadelphia before me. He introduced me to his son, who received me civilly, gave me a breakfast, but told me he did not at present want a hand, being lately supplied with one; but there was another printer in town, lately set up, one Keimer, who, perhaps, might employ me ; if not,
第 101 頁 - and Miss Read, which at times gave me great trouble, I began to suspect that this doctrine, though it might be true, was not very useful. My London pamphlet, printed in 1725, which had for its motto these lines of Dryden : ""Whatever is, is right. But purblind man Sees
第 478 頁 - as the gentleman alluded to, and so injuriously reflected on; one, he was pleased to say, whom all Europe held in high estimation for his knowledge and wisdom, and ranked with our Boyles and Newtons; who was an honor, not to the English nation only, but to human nature
第 13 頁 - the mill-pond, on the edge of which, at high water, we used to stand to fish for minnows. By much trampling, we had made it a mere quagmire. My proposal was to build a wharf there for us to stand upon, and I showed my comrades a large heap of stones, which were intended for a new house near
第 173 頁 - then a semicircle, of which my distance should be the radius, and that it was filled with auditors, to each of whom I allowed two square feet, I computed that he might well be heard by more than thirty thousand. This reconciled me to the newspaper accounts of his having preached to twenty-five thousand people in the field?,
第 11 頁 - town, where now I dwell, My name I do put here; Without offense your real friend, It is Peter Folger."t My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote
第 197 頁 - came to me with the compliment that he found there was no such thing as carrying a public-spirited project through without my being concerned in it. " For," said he, " I am often asked by those to whom I propose subscribing, Have you consulted Franklin on this business 1 And what does he think of it