Political, Miscellaneous, and Philosophical Pieces: Arranged Under the Following Heads, and Distinguished by Initial Letters in Each Leaf: G. P. General Politics: A. B. T. American Politics Before the Troubles: A. D. T. American Politics During the Troubles: P. P. Provincial Or Colony Politics: and M. P. Miscellaneous and Philosophical Pieces |
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... common : many live fingle during life , and continue fervants to families , journeymen to traders , & c . Hence cities do not , by natural ge- neration , fupply themselves with inhabitants : the deaths are more than the births . 4. In ...
... common : many live fingle during life , and continue fervants to families , journeymen to traders , & c . Hence cities do not , by natural ge- neration , fupply themselves with inhabitants : the deaths are more than the births . 4. In ...
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... common fashionable expence of any rank of people , the more cautious they are of marriage . Therefore luxury fhould never be fuffered to be- come common . 19. The great increase of offspring in par- ticular families , is not always ...
... common fashionable expence of any rank of people , the more cautious they are of marriage . Therefore luxury fhould never be fuffered to be- come common . 19. The great increase of offspring in par- ticular families , is not always ...
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... common to fee above one hundred perfons defcended from one living old man . England it frequently happens , where a man has feven , eight , or more children , there has not been a descendant in the next generation ; occa- fioned by the ...
... common to fee above one hundred perfons defcended from one living old man . England it frequently happens , where a man has feven , eight , or more children , there has not been a descendant in the next generation ; occa- fioned by the ...
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... common to all Europe ; and though it is not imagined that it has leffened the country growth of neceffaries ; it has evidently , by introducing a greater confumption of them , ( an infallible confequence of a nation's dwelling in towns ) ...
... common to all Europe ; and though it is not imagined that it has leffened the country growth of neceffaries ; it has evidently , by introducing a greater confumption of them , ( an infallible confequence of a nation's dwelling in towns ) ...
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... common maxim among the advocates of liberty , that no free government was ever diffolved , or overcome , before the manners of its fubjects were cor- rupted . The fuperiority of Greece over Perfia was fingly owing to their difference of ...
... common maxim among the advocates of liberty , that no free government was ever diffolved , or overcome , before the manners of its fubjects were cor- rupted . The fuperiority of Greece over Perfia was fingly owing to their difference of ...
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POLITICAL MISC & PHILOSOPHICAL Benjamin 1706-1790 Franklin,Benjamin 1751-1835 Vaughan No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 529 - 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 25 - Ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness, three times as much by our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly; and from these Taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement. However let us hearken to good Advice, and something may be done for us; God helps them that help themselves, as Poor Richard says, in his Almanack of 1733.
Page 32 - 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, It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.
Page 33 - We are offered, by the terms of this sale, six months' credit; and that 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...
Page 33 - And again to the same purpose, Lying rides upon debt's back. Whereas a freeborn Englishman ought not to be ashamed or afraid to see or speak to any man living. But poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue: 'tis hard for an empty bag to stand upright, as Poor Richard truly says.
Page 268 - An external tax is a duty laid on commodities imported; that duty is added to the first cost and other charges on the commodity, and, when it is offered to sale, makes a part of the price. If the people do not like it at that price, they refuse it; they are not obliged to pay it. But an internal tax is forced from the people without their consent, if not laid by their own representatives.
Page 61 - I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is, not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth, I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
Page 35 - Heaven; and therefore ask that Blessing humbly, and be not uncharitable to those that at present seem to want it, but comfort and help them. Remember Job suffered, and was afterwards prosperous. And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true, we may give Advice, but we cannot give Conduct...
Page 29 - Master will do more Work than both his Hands; and again, Want of Care does us more Damage than Want of Knowledge; and again. Not to oversee Workmen, is to leave them your Purse open. Trusting too much to others' Care is the Ruin of many; for, as the Almanack says.
Page 24 - I stopped my horse lately where a great number of people were collected at a vendue of merchant goods. The hour of 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...