Two-hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Benjamin Franklin: Order of Exercises by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the City of Boston |
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Abraham Acting Mayor Ambassador American appointed appropriation for Mayor assembly Benjamin Franklin birth of Benjamin celebration chairman character citizens City Council city of Boston colonies colonists Commonwealth of Massachusetts Congress Constitution Court CURTIS GUILD debt to Franklin endeavor England English High School exercises expense father Fenderson FITZGERALD France Franklin Bi-Centennial Committee Franklin Fund French gave Governor Guerin HENRY SMITH PRITCHETT honor hundred hundredth anniversary industry interest invitations JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE January 17 Jusserand Library Lindsay Swift LL.D Lord managers Massachusetts General Court Mayor be authorized nation never occasion orator papers Parliament patriot Philadelphia philosopher President printer Pritchett Province of Pennsylvania repealed resolve SAMUEL ABBOTT GREEN sent shillings Stamp Act stand Street sub-committee Symphony Hall thee thou thousand pounds Tillinghast to-day Town of Boston voted Washington Whelton whistle whole WILLIAM BYRNE Written
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Page 89 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver ; and he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket...
Page 94 - 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 60 - MR. STRAHAN, You are a member of parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. — You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our people. — Look upon your hands! — They are stained with the blood of your relations ! — You and I were long friends: — You are now my enemy, — and I am • Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
Page 84 - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.
Page 103 - In this situation of this Assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights, to illuminate our understandings...
Page 84 - I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the writing excellent and wished if possible to imitate it.
Page 105 - 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 84 - I met a boy with bread. I had made many a meal on bread, and, inquiring where he got it, I went immediately to the baker's he directed me to, in...
Page 83 - Brownell, very successful in his profession generally, and that by mild, encouraging methods. Under him I acquired fair writing pretty soon, but I failed in the arithmetic, and made no progress in it. At ten years old...
Page 84 - I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there. I was in my working dress, my best clothes being to come round by sea.