The Works of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of His Life Written by Himself Together with Humourous, Moral, and Literary Essays, Chiefly in the Manner of the Spectator : Among which are Several Not in Any American Edition |
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... perhaps , by this employment , gratify my vanity . Scarcely indeed have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase , " I may say without vanity , " but some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately followed . The ...
... perhaps , by this employment , gratify my vanity . Scarcely indeed have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase , " I may say without vanity , " but some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately followed . The ...
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... perhaps for his situation . I lately found in London a collection which he had made of all the prin- cipal pamphlets relative to public affairs , from the year 1641 to 1717. Many volumes are wanting , as ap- pears by the series of ...
... perhaps for his situation . I lately found in London a collection which he had made of all the prin- cipal pamphlets relative to public affairs , from the year 1641 to 1717. Many volumes are wanting , as ap- pears by the series of ...
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... perhaps , be uninteresting to you to know what sort of a man my father was . He had an ex- cellent constitution , was of a middle size , but well made and strong , and extremely active in whatever he un- dertook . He designed with a ...
... perhaps , be uninteresting to you to know what sort of a man my father was . He had an ex- cellent constitution , was of a middle size , but well made and strong , and extremely active in whatever he un- dertook . He designed with a ...
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... perhaps the name of negligence . To return , I thus continued employed in my father's trade for the space of two years ; that is to say , till I arrived at twelve years of age . About this time my brother John , who had served his ...
... perhaps the name of negligence . To return , I thus continued employed in my father's trade for the space of two years ; that is to say , till I arrived at twelve years of age . About this time my brother John , who had served his ...
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... perhaps , I derived impressions that have since influenced some of the principal events of my life . My inclination for books at last determined my fa- ther to make me a printer , though he had already a son in that profession . My ...
... perhaps , I derived impressions that have since influenced some of the principal events of my life . My inclination for books at last determined my fa- ther to make me a printer , though he had already a son in that profession . My ...
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Page 217 - But you who are wise must know, that different nations have different conceptions of things ; and you will therefore not take it amiss, if our ideas of this kind of education happen not to be the same with yours.
Page 217 - We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it: and to show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take great care of their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them.
Page 217 - ... in their persons, nor shall their houses or goods be burnt, or otherwise destroyed, nor their fields wasted, by the armed force...
Page 243 - I doubt, too, whether any other convention we can obtain, may be able to make a better Constitution; for, when you assemble a number of men, to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men, all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views.
Page 244 - ... their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? It therefore astonishes me, sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our councils are confounded, like those of the builders of Babel ; and that our States are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for...
Page 222 - And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.
Page 163 - Remember that money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on.
Page 164 - Remember this. saying, The good paymaster is lord of another man's purse. He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the time he promises, may at any time, and on any occasion, raise all the money his friends can spare. This is sometimes of great use.
Page 164 - The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but, if he sees you at a billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day; demands it, before he can receive it, in a lump.
Page 285 - 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.