The Select Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including His Autobiography, with Notes and a MemoirJ.L. Shorey, 1866 - 256 pages |
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... replied , " No , never ! unless compelled by force of arms . " May not a military force carry the Stamp Act into ex- ecution ? " asked one of his interrogators . Franklin replied : " Suppose a military force sent into America ; they ...
... replied , " No , never ! unless compelled by force of arms . " May not a military force carry the Stamp Act into ex- ecution ? " asked one of his interrogators . Franklin replied : " Suppose a military force sent into America ; they ...
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... replied : " Yes , there is Lord Dartmouth ; we liked him very well when he was at the head of the board formerly , and in all probability should again . " Lord Dartmouth was appointed to succeed Lord Hillsborough . Prior to Lord ...
... replied : " Yes , there is Lord Dartmouth ; we liked him very well when he was at the head of the board formerly , and in all probability should again . " Lord Dartmouth was appointed to succeed Lord Hillsborough . Prior to Lord ...
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... replied that the attraction was the very thing desired , for the charge is thereby silently and gradually drawn from the building , and conveyed without danger to the earth . Mr. Wilson still clung to his theory in regard to blunt ...
... replied that the attraction was the very thing desired , for the charge is thereby silently and gradually drawn from the building , and conveyed without danger to the earth . Mr. Wilson still clung to his theory in regard to blunt ...
Page 66
... replied she , that I wished government would employ you to settle the dispute for them ; I am sure nobody could do it so well . Do not you think that the thing is practicable ? ' Undoubtedly , madam , if the parties are disposed to ...
... replied she , that I wished government would employ you to settle the dispute for them ; I am sure nobody could do it so well . Do not you think that the thing is practicable ? ' Undoubtedly , madam , if the parties are disposed to ...
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... replied to Mr. Barclay : " The ministry , I am sure , would rather give me a place in a cart to Tyburn than any other place whatever . " " " 66 " " Lord Howe , also , threw out lures , though in a more guarded and delicate manner ...
... replied to Mr. Barclay : " The ministry , I am sure , would rather give me a place in a cart to Tyburn than any other place whatever . " " " 66 " " Lord Howe , also , threw out lures , though in a more guarded and delicate manner ...
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Page 101 - I have lived, Sir, a long time ; and, the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that GOD governs in the affairs of men. And, if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid ? We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that, 'except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
Page 139 - 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.
Page 203 - ... 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 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...
Page 101 - On the whole, sir, I cannot help expressing a wish that every member of the convention who may still have objections to it, would, with me, on this occasion, doubt a little of his own infallibility, and, to make manifest our unanimity, put his name to this instrument.
Page 124 - 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 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...
Page 111 - 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 ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Page 147 - So I din'd upon cod very heartily, and continued to eat with other people, returning only now and then occasionally to a vegetable diet. So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.
Page 183 - Temperance, for example, was by some confined to eating and drinking, while by others it was extended to mean the moderating every other pleasure, appetite, inclination, or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition.
Page 167 - Some books against Deism fell into my hands; they were said to be the substance of sermons preached at Boyle's Lectures. It happened that they wrought an effect on me quite contrary to what was intended by them; for the arguments of the Deists, which were quoted to be refuted, appeared to me much stronger than the refutations; in short, I soon became a thorough Deist.
Page 43 - ... paper. They were led by a thread. They had not only a respect, but an affection, for Great Britain, for its laws, its customs and manners, and even a fondness for its fashions, that greatly increased the commerce. Natives of Britain were always treated with particular regard ; to be an Old England- man, was, of itself, a character of some respect, and gave a kind of rank among us.