The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac, and Other PapersA. L. Burt, publisher - 308 頁 |
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第 1 到 5 筆結果,共 42 筆
第 13 頁
... afterward sold them to enable me to buy R. Burton's " Historical Collec- tions . " They were small chap - men's books , * and cheap , forty volumes in all . My father's little library con- sisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity ...
... afterward sold them to enable me to buy R. Burton's " Historical Collec- tions . " They were small chap - men's books , * and cheap , forty volumes in all . My father's little library con- sisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity ...
第 34 頁
... afterward found , a good deal of the knave in his composition . He did not like my lodging at Bradford's while I worked with him . He had a house , indeed , but without furniture , so he could not lodge me ; but he got me a lodging at ...
... afterward found , a good deal of the knave in his composition . He did not like my lodging at Bradford's while I worked with him . He had a house , indeed , but without furniture , so he could not lodge me ; but he got me a lodging at ...
第 35 頁
... afterward told me in Boston , but I knew as yet nothing of it ; when one day Keimer and I , being at work together near the window , we saw the governor and another gentleman ( who proved to be Colonel French , of Newcastle , in the ...
... afterward told me in Boston , but I knew as yet nothing of it ; when one day Keimer and I , being at work together near the window , we saw the governor and another gentleman ( who proved to be Colonel French , of Newcastle , in the ...
第 43 頁
... afterward heard it as his known character to be liberal of promises which he never meant to keep . Yet , unsolicited as he was by me , how could I think his generous offers insincere ? I believed him one of the best men in the world . I ...
... afterward heard it as his known character to be liberal of promises which he never meant to keep . Yet , unsolicited as he was by me , how could I think his generous offers insincere ? I believed him one of the best men in the world . I ...
第 53 頁
... afterward on many occasions . But what shall we think of a governor playing such pitiful tricks and imposing so grossly on a poor ignorant boy ! It was a habit he had acquired . He wished to please everybody , and having little to give ...
... afterward on many occasions . But what shall we think of a governor playing such pitiful tricks and imposing so grossly on a poor ignorant boy ! It was a habit he had acquired . He wished to please everybody , and having little to give ...
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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...