The Life of Benjamin Franklin: With Many Choice Anecdotes and Admirable Sayings of this Great Man, Never Before Published by Any of His Biographers |
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... neglected JUSTICE , MERCY , and TRUTH , and yet affected great familiarities with the Deity . from certain conceited wonders that Christ had wrought in them . As no youth ever more heartily desired the 38 THE LIFE OF.
... neglected JUSTICE , MERCY , and TRUTH , and yet affected great familiarities with the Deity . from certain conceited wonders that Christ had wrought in them . As no youth ever more heartily desired the 38 THE LIFE OF.
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... Deity or profitable to man , I choose to stay at home and read my books ; and this is the reason , I suppose , why my brother James and the council - men here of Boston think that I have no religion . ” " Your strictures on some of our ...
... Deity or profitable to man , I choose to stay at home and read my books ; and this is the reason , I suppose , why my brother James and the council - men here of Boston think that I have no religion . ” " Your strictures on some of our ...
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... Deity in creating him ? " " Well , but how is this to be done ? ” " Certainly , father , by imitating the Deity . " " By imitating him , child ! but how are we to imitate him ? " " In his goodness , father . " " But why do you pitch on ...
... Deity in creating him ? " " Well , but how is this to be done ? ” " Certainly , father , by imitating the Deity . " " By imitating him , child ! but how are we to imitate him ? " " In his goodness , father . " " But why do you pitch on ...
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... Deity could also h as great in all other parts of nature ; it every fish as monstrous as a whale , every b condor , every beast as vast as the elephant big as a mountain . But then it must stri these changes would all have been utterly ...
... Deity could also h as great in all other parts of nature ; it every fish as monstrous as a whale , every b condor , every beast as vast as the elephant big as a mountain . But then it must stri these changes would all have been utterly ...
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... Deity . sir , I don't love the fig - leaf . " 66 In short , Fig - leaf ! I don't understand you , child : what do you mean by the fig - leaf ? " 66 Why , father , we read in the Bible that soon as Adam had lost that true image of the Deity ...
... Deity . sir , I don't love the fig - leaf . " 66 In short , Fig - leaf ! I don't understand you , child : what do you mean by the fig - leaf ? " 66 Why , father , we read in the Bible that soon as Adam had lost that true image of the Deity ...
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Page 137 - I stopped my horse lately where a great number of people were collected at an auction of merchants' goods. The hour of the sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times; and one of the company called to a plain, clean old man, with white locks; — "Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the times? Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country? How shall we ever be able to pay them? What would you advise us to?" Father Abraham stood up and replied, "If you would have...
Page 141 - If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing...
Page 141 - ... perhaps, has induced some of us to attend it, because we cannot spare the ready money, and hope now to be fine without it. But ah! think what you do when you run in debt; you give to another power over your liberty. If you cannot pay at the time, you will be ashamed to see your creditor, you will be in fear when you speak to him, you will make poor, pitiful, sneaking excuses, and, by degrees, come to lose your veracity, and sink into base, downright lying: for, 'the second vice is lying, the...
Page 141 - And again, Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but Poor Dick says, 'Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
Page 140 - 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.
Page 138 - What though you have found no treasure, nor has any rich relation left you a legacy, Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
Page 140 - What maintains one Vice, would bring up two Children. "You may think perhaps, that a little Tea, or a little Punch now and then, Diet a little more costly, Clothes a little finer, and a little Entertainment now and then, can be no great Matter; but remember what Poor Richard says, Many a Little makes a Mickle; and farther, Beware of little Expenses; A small Leak will sink a great Ship; and again. Who Dainties love, shall Beggars prove; and moreover, Fools make Feasts, and wise Men eat them.
Page 147 - Good," which, I think, was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor that several leaves of it were torn out, but the remainder gave me such a turn of thinking as to have an influence on my conduct through life; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good than on any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to that book.
Page 138 - Methinks, I hear some of you say, "Must a man afford himself no leisure?" I will tell thee, my friend! what Poor RICHARD says. Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure! and Since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour!
Page 144 - I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for one. I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers and sisters and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth...