The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author, Volume 1Hilliard, Gray,, 1840 - United States |
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... tion from them , in a thin octavo volume , was print- ed in 1787 . Three years after his death , in 1793 , the Messrs . Robinson published in London what they called , in the title - page , the Works of Dr. Franklin , comprised in two ...
... tion from them , in a thin octavo volume , was print- ed in 1787 . Three years after his death , in 1793 , the Messrs . Robinson published in London what they called , in the title - page , the Works of Dr. Franklin , comprised in two ...
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... tion is expressly stated in the preface to the first edition , and although more than twenty years have elapsed since the autobiography was published from the original manuscript . As there printed , it comes down no later than to the ...
... tion is expressly stated in the preface to the first edition , and although more than twenty years have elapsed since the autobiography was published from the original manuscript . As there printed , it comes down no later than to the ...
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... tion and contempt , and appears not to regard it as worthy of being refuted . He was less reserved in conversation . Dr. John W. Francis , of New York , saw him often in London , in the year 1816 , while he was preparing his ...
... tion and contempt , and appears not to regard it as worthy of being refuted . He was less reserved in conversation . Dr. John W. Francis , of New York , saw him often in London , in the year 1816 , while he was preparing his ...
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... tion , and endeavour to fix it on some trade or pro- fession that would keep me on land . It has ever since been a pleasure to me to see good workmen handle their tools . And it has been often useful to me , to have learned so much by ...
... tion , and endeavour to fix it on some trade or pro- fession that would keep me on land . It has ever since been a pleasure to me to see good workmen handle their tools . And it has been often useful to me , to have learned so much by ...
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... tion their papers were received with , I was excited to try my hand among them . But , being still a boy , and suspecting that my brother would object to printing any thing of mine in his paper , if he knew it to be mine , I contrived ...
... tion their papers were received with , I was excited to try my hand among them . But , being still a boy , and suspecting that my brother would object to printing any thing of mine in his paper , if he knew it to be mine , I contrived ...
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Page 102 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men...
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 fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!
Page 110 - Here will I hold. If 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.
Page 34 - 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 - ORDER Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
Page 571 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 18 - I had gone on making verses ; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it.
Page 110 - ... the first, proceeds to a second; so I should have (I hoped) the encouraging pleasure of seeing on my pages the progress I made in virtue by clearing successively my lines of their spots, till in the end by a number of courses, I should be happy in viewing a clean book after a thirteen weeks
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 597 - 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.