The works of Benjamin Franklin: with notes and a life of the author by J. Sparks, Volume 1 |
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... were born . Forms an Acquaintance with Bas- kerville . - Publishes the " Historical Review of Pennsylvania . " - Authorship of that Work . - - • - - ˇ 229 --- CHAPTER II . Franklin advises the Conquest of Canada xxviii CONTENTS .
... were born . Forms an Acquaintance with Bas- kerville . - Publishes the " Historical Review of Pennsylvania . " - Authorship of that Work . - - • - - ˇ 229 --- CHAPTER II . Franklin advises the Conquest of Canada xxviii CONTENTS .
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... acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers enabled me some- times to borrow a small one , which I was careful to return soon , and clean . Often I sat up in my cham- ber reading the greatest part of the night , when the book was ...
... acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers enabled me some- times to borrow a small one , which I was careful to return soon , and clean . Often I sat up in my cham- ber reading the greatest part of the night , when the book was ...
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... acquaint- ed . We sometimes disputed , and very fond we were of argument , and very desirous of confuting one an- other ; which disputatious turn , by the way , is apt to become a very bad habit , making people often extreme- ly ...
... acquaint- ed . We sometimes disputed , and very fond we were of argument , and very desirous of confuting one an- other ; which disputatious turn , by the way , is apt to become a very bad habit , making people often extreme- ly ...
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... acquainted with Tryon's manner of preparing some of his dishes , such as boiling potatoes or rice , making hasty - pudding and a few others , and then pro- posed to my brother , that if he would give me weekly half the money he paid for ...
... acquainted with Tryon's manner of preparing some of his dishes , such as boiling potatoes or rice , making hasty - pudding and a few others , and then pro- posed to my brother , that if he would give me weekly half the money he paid for ...
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... acquaintance . However , that did not quite please him , as he thought it tended to make me too vain . This might be one occasion of the differences we began to have about this time . Though a brother , he considered himself as my ...
... acquaintance . However , that did not quite please him , as he thought it tended to make me too vain . This might be one occasion of the differences we began to have about this time . Though a brother , he considered himself as my ...
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Page 19 - This was to teach me method in the arrangement of thoughts. By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.
Page 106 - ... 4. Resolution Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. 5. Frugality Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; ie, waste nothing. 6. Industry Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. 7. Sincerity Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
Page 591 - 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 33 - 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 106 - 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. I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, with fewer ideas annexed to each, than a few names with more ideas...
Page 111 - 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 feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Page 10 - 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...
Page 33 - 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.
Page 601 - Boston then lay out, at their discretion, one hundred thousand pounds in public works which may be judged of most general utility to the inhabitants, such as fortifications, bridges, aqueducts, public buildings, baths, pavements, or whatever may make living in the town more convenient to its people, and render it more agreeable to strangers resorting thither for health or a temporary residence.
Page 12 - At his table he liked to have, as often as he could, some sensible friend or neighbour to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse, which might tend to improve the minds of his children. By this means he turned our attention to what was good, just, and prudent, in the conduct of life...