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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... able to make no additions to it . It is with a melancholy regret I think of his death ; but to death we are all bound by the irreversi- ble order of nature ; and in looking forward to it , there is comfort in being able to reflect ...
... able to make no additions to it . It is with a melancholy regret I think of his death ; but to death we are all bound by the irreversi- ble order of nature ; and in looking forward to it , there is comfort in being able to reflect ...
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... able for " their livelihoods to make a jury in form aforementioned . " OLD TRANSLATION . Chaucer too calls his country gentleman a Franklin , and after describing his good housekeeping , thus characterises him : This worthy Franklin ...
... able for " their livelihoods to make a jury in form aforementioned . " OLD TRANSLATION . Chaucer too calls his country gentleman a Franklin , and after describing his good housekeeping , thus characterises him : This worthy Franklin ...
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... tools ; and it has proved of considerable benefit , to have ac- quired thereby sufficient knowledge to be able to make little things for myself , when I have had no mechanic at hand , and to construct small machines for my 20 THE LIFE OF.
... tools ; and it has proved of considerable benefit , to have ac- quired thereby sufficient knowledge to be able to make little things for myself , when I have had no mechanic at hand , and to construct small machines for my 20 THE LIFE OF.
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... able to save half . This was a new fund for the purchase of books ; and other advantages re- sulted to me from the plan . When my brother and his workmen left the printing - house to go to dinner , I re- mained behind ; and dispatching ...
... able to save half . This was a new fund for the purchase of books ; and other advantages re- sulted to me from the plan . When my brother and his workmen left the printing - house to go to dinner , I re- mained behind ; and dispatching ...
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... able to extricate themselves , and sometimes obtained victories which neither my cause nor my arguments merited . This method I continued to employ for some years ; but I afterwards abandoned it by degrees , retaining only the habit of ...
... able to extricate themselves , and sometimes obtained victories which neither my cause nor my arguments merited . This method I continued to employ for some years ; but I afterwards abandoned it by degrees , retaining only the habit of ...
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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.