The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac, and Other PapersA. L. Burt, publisher - 308 頁 |
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第 16 頁
... answered and I replied . Three or four letters on a side had passed , when my father happened to find my papers and read them . Without entering into the subject in dispute , he took occasion to talk to me about my manner of writing ...
... answered and I replied . Three or four letters on a side had passed , when my father happened to find my papers and read them . Without entering into the subject in dispute , he took occasion to talk to me about my manner of writing ...
第 34 頁
... be accommodated to my mind if I would return , to which he entreated me earnestly . I wrote an answer to his letter , thanked him for his advice , but stated my rea- sons for quitting Boston so fully and in such a 34 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF.
... be accommodated to my mind if I would return , to which he entreated me earnestly . I wrote an answer to his letter , thanked him for his advice , but stated my rea- sons for quitting Boston so fully and in such a 34 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF.
第 44 頁
... answer me the most common question without asking first , " What do you intend to infer from that ? " However , it gave him so high an opinion of my abilities in the confuting way that he seriously proposed my being his colleague in a ...
... answer me the most common question without asking first , " What do you intend to infer from that ? " However , it gave him so high an opinion of my abilities in the confuting way that he seriously proposed my being his colleague in a ...
第 76 頁
... answered in the affirmative , he said he was sorry for me , because it was an expensive under- taking and the expense would be lost ; for Philadelphia was a sinking place , the people already half - bankrupts or near being so ; all the ...
... answered in the affirmative , he said he was sorry for me , because it was an expensive under- taking and the expense would be lost ; for Philadelphia was a sinking place , the people already half - bankrupts or near being so ; all the ...
第 87 頁
... answer it , their opposition slackened and the point was carried by a majority in the House . My friends there , who considered I had been of some service , thought fit to reward me by employing me in printing the money ; a very profit ...
... answer it , their opposition slackened and the point was carried by a majority in the House . My friends there , who considered I had been of some service , thought fit to reward me by employing me in printing the money ; a very profit ...
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acquaintance advantage adventures affairs afterward almanac appeared arrived Assembly attend Benjamin Franklin Boston brother brought called captain cloth continued conversation dear debt desire dispute employed endeavor England father Fort Duquesne Fort Griswold Franklin friends gave give Gnadenhutten Gout governor hand heard honor HORATIO ALGER horses Hugh Meredith illustrated Indians industry inhabitants JAMES OTIS Keimer kind learning letters Little Britain lived lodged London Lord Loudoun master means ment mention Motto never occasion opinion paper Pennsylvania perhaps persons Philadelphia pleased pleasure Poor Richard says POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC pounds currency present printed printer printing-house procure proposed province Quakers Ralph received sailed sect sent shillings sometimes soon story thee things thought thousand pounds tion told took virtue wagons walk writing wrote York young
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第 224 頁 - So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business ; but to these we must add frugality, if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will, as Poor Richard says; and — Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea ' forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting.
第 230 頁 - This doctrine, my friends, is reason and wisdom; but, after all do not depend too much upon your own industry and frugality and prudence, though excellent things; for they may all be blasted, without the blessing of Heaven; and, therefore, ask that blessing humbly, and be not uncharitable to those that at present seem to want it, but comfort and help them. Remember Job suffered, and was afterward prosperous. " And now, to conclude, Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other...
第 105 頁 - Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme! O teach me what is good; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!
第 226 頁 - You call them Goods, but if you do not take Care, they will prove Evils to some of you. You expect they will be sold cheap, and perhaps they may for less than they cost; but if you have no Occasion for them, they must be dear to you. Remember what Poor Richard says, Buy what thou hast no Need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries.
第 30 頁 - I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there.
第 131 頁 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. 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 coppers.
第 226 頁 - By these, and other Extravagancies, the Genteel are Reduced to Poverty, and forced to borrow of those whom they formerly despised, but who through Industry and Frugality have maintained their Standing; in which case it appears plainly...
第 31 頁 - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.
第 87 頁 - Our debates possessed me so fully of the subject that I wrote and printed an anonymous pamphlet on it, entitled The Nature and Necessity of a Paper Currency.
第 31 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...