The Select Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including His Autobiography |
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... Experiment with a Kite - Scientific Merits - Lon- don Contemporaries - Hostile Letter to Strahan , with Autograph Ill- ness- - Interview with the Penns - Pamphlets , & c.— Musical Tastes The Harmonica Scientific Studies and Letters ...
... Experiment with a Kite - Scientific Merits - Lon- don Contemporaries - Hostile Letter to Strahan , with Autograph Ill- ness- - Interview with the Penns - Pamphlets , & c.— Musical Tastes The Harmonica Scientific Studies and Letters ...
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... Experiments - Public Employ- ments- A Member of the Assembly - Commissioner to treat with Indi- - The Pennsylvania Hospital Advice in procuring Subscriptions— Street Paving , Cleaning and Lighting - Project for Cleaning Streets in ...
... Experiments - Public Employ- ments- A Member of the Assembly - Commissioner to treat with Indi- - The Pennsylvania Hospital Advice in procuring Subscriptions— Street Paving , Cleaning and Lighting - Project for Cleaning Streets in ...
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... Experiment . HIS PHILOSOPHICAL PAPERS . The Electrical Kite Various Experiments -Treatment of Inventors 281 283 · 286 Protection from Lightning · Of the Effects of Electricity in Paralytic Cases . 288 291 Meteorological Imaginations and ...
... Experiment . HIS PHILOSOPHICAL PAPERS . The Electrical Kite Various Experiments -Treatment of Inventors 281 283 · 286 Protection from Lightning · Of the Effects of Electricity in Paralytic Cases . 288 291 Meteorological Imaginations and ...
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... experiments , he per- ceived that Mr. Kinnersley was right , and that the vitreous and resinous electricity of Du Faye were nothing more than the positive and negative states which he had before observed ; that the glass globe charged ...
... experiments , he per- ceived that Mr. Kinnersley was right , and that the vitreous and resinous electricity of Du Faye were nothing more than the positive and negative states which he had before observed ; that the glass globe charged ...
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... experiments , when unsuccessful , often call forth , he kept his intentions a secret from all but his companion . He placed himself under a shed , to avoid the rain . His kite was raised . A thunder- cloud passed over it . No sign of ...
... experiments , when unsuccessful , often call forth , he kept his intentions a secret from all but his companion . He placed himself under a shed , to avoid the rain . His kite was raised . A thunder- cloud passed over it . No sign of ...
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acquaintance affairs afterwards agreeable America appeared appointed Art of Virtue Assembly attended body Boston Britain called chimney cold Colonies conduct conductors Congress continued conversation David Hume dear desire electricity employed endeavor England father favor fire fluid France Franklin French friends gave give Gout governor hand happy heat Helvetius honor hundred John Adams Keimer kind letter live London Lord Camden Lord Chatham Lord Hillsborough Lord Loudoun Lord Stanhope lordship means ment nature never observed obtained occasion opinion paper Parliament Passy Pennsylvania perhaps person Philadelphia pleased pleasure Poor Richard's Almanac pounds pounds sterling present printed printer printing-house procure proposed Proprietary province Quakers reason received respect says seems sent shillings soon suppose things thought tion told took virtue William Temple Franklin wish writing wrote young
Popular passages
Page 101 - I have lived, sir, a long time; and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men.
Page 131 - I took a delight in it, practiced it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions the consequences of which they did not foresee, entangling them in difficulties out of which they could not extricate themselves, and so obtaining victories that neither myself nor my cause always deserved.
Page 117 - As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of morals and his religion as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is like to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting changes, and I have with most of the present dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity...
Page 187 - Father of light and life ! thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ! teach me Thyself ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Page 174 - I had been of some service, thought fit to reward me, by employing me in printing the money ; a very profitable job, and a great help to me. This was another advantage gained by my being able to write.
Page 111 - 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 138 - 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.
Page 157 - I endeavored to convince him that the bodily strength afforded by beer could only be in proportion to the grain or flour of the barley dissolved in the water of which it was made ; that there was more flour in a pennyworth of bread ; and therefore, if he would eat that with a pint of water, it would give him more strength than a quart of beer.
Page 178 - And now I set on foot my first project of a public nature, that for a subscription library. I drew up the proposals, got them put into form by our great scrivener, Brockden, and, by the help of my friends in the Junto, procured fifty subscribers of forty shillings each to begin with, and ten shillings a year for fifty years, the term our company was to continue. We afterwards...
Page 184 - I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, with fewer ideas annexed to each, than a few names with more ideas; and I included under thirteen names of virtues all that at that time occurred to me as necessary or desirable, and annexed to each a short precept, which fully expressed the extent I gave to its meaning.