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... month ago . The more I reflect upon the injustice and oppression we experience , the less I think of this country for a home . Indeed , I have mentally concluded to go if I can arrange my affairs as I hope to . " " Then we shall be ...
... month ago . The more I reflect upon the injustice and oppression we experience , the less I think of this country for a home . Indeed , I have mentally concluded to go if I can arrange my affairs as I hope to . " " Then we shall be ...
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... months after the death of his first wife . The second Mrs. Franklin became the mother of ten children , which , added to those of the first Mrs. Franklin , constituted a very respectable family of seventeen children , among whom was ...
... months after the death of his first wife . The second Mrs. Franklin became the mother of ten children , which , added to those of the first Mrs. Franklin , constituted a very respectable family of seventeen children , among whom was ...
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... months , as the teacher predicts , Benjamin led the school . He was at the head of his class in every study except arithmetic . Nor did he remain at the head of his class long , for he was rapidly promoted to higher classes . He so far ...
... months , as the teacher predicts , Benjamin led the school . He was at the head of his class in every study except arithmetic . Nor did he remain at the head of his class long , for he was rapidly promoted to higher classes . He so far ...
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... months of Benjamin Franklin's school days foreshadowed the remarkable career of his manhood . Relatives and friends be- lieved that he would one day fill a high place in the land ; and in that , their anticipations were fully real- ized ...
... months of Benjamin Franklin's school days foreshadowed the remarkable career of his manhood . Relatives and friends be- lieved that he would one day fill a high place in the land ; and in that , their anticipations were fully real- ized ...
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... months , John , who had learned the tallow - chandler's business of his father , was going to be married , and ... month to month , and must continue to increase for some years , so far as I can see . They will increase heavily if I am ...
... months , John , who had learned the tallow - chandler's business of his father , was going to be married , and ... month to month , and must continue to increase for some years , so far as I can see . They will increase heavily if I am ...
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Page 452 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Page 456 - I have lived, Sir, a long time ; and, the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that GOD govern! in the affairs of men.
Page 201 - I conceive or apprehend a thing to be so and so ; it appears to me, or I should think it so or so, for such and such reasons; or / imagine it to be so; or it is so, if I am not mistaken. This habit, I believe, has been of great advantage to me when I have had occasion to inculcate my opinions, and persuade men into measures that I have been from time to time engaged in promoting...
Page 154 - In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality ; that is, waste neither time nor money ', but make the best use of both.
Page 457 - 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 197 - Tragedy, and contained an account of the drowning of Captain Worthilake, with his two daughters : the other was a sailor's song, on the taking of Teach (or Blackbeard) the pirate.
Page 80 - Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet; — and bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: — for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again; — he was lost, and is found.
Page 76 - 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 456 - In the Beginning of the Contest with Britain, when we were sensible of Danger, we had daily Prayers in this Room for the Divine Protection. Our Prayers, Sir, were heard ; — and they were graciously answered.
Page 200 - While I was intent on improving my language, I met with an English grammar (I think it was Greenwood's), at the end of which there were two little sketches of the arts of rhetoric and logic, the latter finishing with a specimen of a dispute in the Socratic method; and soon after I procured Xenophon's Memorable Things of Socrates, wherein there are many instances of the same method.