The Select Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including His AutobiographyPhillips, Sampson, 1855 - 488페이지 |
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... pleasure in finding them out and making himself known . " At Wellingborough , " he says , in a letter to his wife , " on inquiry , we found still living Mary Fisher , whose maiden name was Franklin , daughter and only child of Thomas ...
... pleasure in finding them out and making himself known . " At Wellingborough , " he says , in a letter to his wife , " on inquiry , we found still living Mary Fisher , whose maiden name was Franklin , daughter and only child of Thomas ...
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... pleasure . Voltaire at first accosted him in English ; but , having lost the habit of speaking it , he resumed the conversation in French , adroitly remarking , " I could not resist the temptation of speaking for a moment the language ...
... pleasure . Voltaire at first accosted him in English ; but , having lost the habit of speaking it , he resumed the conversation in French , adroitly remarking , " I could not resist the temptation of speaking for a moment the language ...
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... pleasure , and some of the pieces more than once . I beg you to accept my thankful acknowledgments , and to present my respects to the author . " Cowper was well pleased with the compli- ment , coming , as he said , from " one of the ...
... pleasure , and some of the pieces more than once . I beg you to accept my thankful acknowledgments , and to present my respects to the author . " Cowper was well pleased with the compli- ment , coming , as he said , from " one of the ...
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... pleasure than he . Franklin was now very pleasantly situated in his domestic relations , and there was every temptation for him to withdraw from public affairs . " I am got into my niche , ' he writes , " after being kept out of it ...
... pleasure than he . Franklin was now very pleasantly situated in his domestic relations , and there was every temptation for him to withdraw from public affairs . " I am got into my niche , ' he writes , " after being kept out of it ...
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... pleasure to me to see good workmen handle their tools . it has been often useful to me to have learned so much by it as to be able to do some trifling jobs in the house when a work- man was not at hand , and to construct little machines ...
... pleasure to me to see good workmen handle their tools . it has been often useful to me to have learned so much by it as to be able to do some trifling jobs in the house when a work- man was not at hand , and to construct little machines ...
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acquaintance advantage affairs afterwards agreeable America appeared appointed Assembly attended body Boston Britain called chimney cold Colonies conduct conductors Congress continued conversation David Hume dear desire earth electricity endeavor England experiments father favor fire fluid France Franklin French friends gave give Gnadenhutten Gout governor hand happiness heat honor hundred Indians inhabitants John Adams Keimer kind labor letter live London Lord Camden Lord Chatham Lord Hillsborough Lord Loudoun Lord Stanhope lordship Madeira wine means ment mentioned nature never observed obtained occasion officers opinion paper Parliament Passy Pennsylvania perhaps person Philadelphia Philocles pleased pleasure pounds pounds sterling present printed printing-house procure proposed Proprietary province Quakers reason received seems sent shillings soon Stamp Act suppose things thought tion took virtue wagons William Temple Franklin wish writing wrote young
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361 페이지 - 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.
129 페이지 - It was the third. 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.
194 페이지 - I therefore filled all the little spaces that occurr'd between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it being more difficult for a man in want, to act always honestly, as, to use here one of those proverbs, it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.
213 페이지 - That, as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously.
361 페이지 - 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.
139 페이지 - I went for a draught of the river water; and, being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther. Thus...
139 페이지 - 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.
356 페이지 - But with our Industry, we must likewise be steady, settled and careful, and oversee our own Affairs with our own Eyes, and not trust too much to others; for, as Poor Richard says I never saw an oft-removed Tree, Nor yet an oft-removed Family, That throve so well as those that settled be.
111 페이지 - 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.
469 페이지 - This advice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me; and I often think of it, when I see pride mortified, and misfortunes brought upon people by their carrying their heads too high.