The True Benjamin FranklinJ.B. Lippincott, 1898 - 369페이지 Decrying the habit of American biographers to mythologize their subjects, Sydney George Fisher sets out to write a book about the True Benjamin Franklin. Of Franklin, he says that the human in him was so interlaced with the divine that the one dragged the other into light. Fisher s book is a unique biography of Benjamin Franklin, written by an opinionated man who grew up directly in the wake of Franklin s influence on American culture.-- |
도서 본문에서
7 페이지
... important public life was all covered by the twenty - two years from 1775 to 1797 , and during more than three of those years he was in retirement at Mount Vernon . But Franklin was an active politician , philosopher , man of science ...
... important public life was all covered by the twenty - two years from 1775 to 1797 , and during more than three of those years he was in retirement at Mount Vernon . But Franklin was an active politician , philosopher , man of science ...
8 페이지
... importance . Indeed , when we read one of these letters or memoranda it is so clearly and beautifully expressed and put in such a captivating form that , as the editor craftily forbears to comment on it , we instinctively conclude that ...
... importance . Indeed , when we read one of these letters or memoranda it is so clearly and beautifully expressed and put in such a captivating form that , as the editor craftily forbears to comment on it , we instinctively conclude that ...
26 페이지
... important dream - persuaders , and bad dreams and restlessness in bed are caused by excess of perspirable matter which is not allowed to get away from the skin . Eat less , have thinner and more porous bedclothes , and if you are ...
... important dream - persuaders , and bad dreams and restlessness in bed are caused by excess of perspirable matter which is not allowed to get away from the skin . Eat less , have thinner and more porous bedclothes , and if you are ...
30 페이지
... importance ; but I am informed by physicians that it was merely the revamping of an ancient theory held long before his time , and quite without foundation . Franklin's excursions into the domain of medicine are not , therefore , to be ...
... importance ; but I am informed by physicians that it was merely the revamping of an ancient theory held long before his time , and quite without foundation . Franklin's excursions into the domain of medicine are not , therefore , to be ...
38 페이지
... by his colleague , James Wilson ; and yet it was in that convention , as we shall see , that he performed the most important act of his political career . In December , 1787 , he had a fall down 38 THE TRUE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
... by his colleague , James Wilson ; and yet it was in that convention , as we shall see , that he performed the most important act of his political career . In December , 1787 , he had a fall down 38 THE TRUE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
기타 출판본 - 모두 보기
자주 나오는 단어 및 구문
Adams's afterwards agent almanac America appointed Arthur Lee asked Assembly assistance Beaumarchais became begat Bigelow's Boston British called Collinson colonies colonists commissioners Congress Continental Congress Cotton Mather daughter Deane deism diurnal motion electricity England English essay experiments famous father favor France Frank Franklin French friends Gazette give gout governor humor hundred Hutchinson Izard John Adams Keimer king letters liberty lived London Lord Massachusetts ment minister mother natural never newspaper opinion pamphlet paper Paris Pennsylvania Philadelphia philosopher Poor Richard portrait printed printer printing-office proprietors Quaker religion Revolution Samuel Adams says seems sent ship Silas Deane soon sort Stamp Act suggested supposed tells Temple things thou thought thousand pounds tion told took Tory treaty Vergennes Whately wife William William Temple Franklin writing written wrote young
인기 인용구
151 페이지 - Things, for they may all be blasted without the Blessing of Heaven; and therefore ask that Blessing humbly, and be not uncharitable to those that at present seem to want it, but comfort and help them. Remember Job suffered, and was afterwards prosperous. And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...
362 페이지 - often and often in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that sun behind the president without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting; but now, at length, I have the happiness to know that it is a rising, and not a setting sun.
153 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.
46 페이지 - 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.
151 페이지 - Industry all easy, as Poor Richard says; and He that riseth late must trot all Day, and shall scarce overtake his Business at Night; while Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him...
362 페이지 - On the whole, sir, I cannot help expressing a wish that every member of the Convention who may still have objections to it would, with me, on this occasion doubt a little of his own infallibility, and, to make manifest our unanimity, put his name to this instrument.
94 페이지 - 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.
151 페이지 - Time must be (as Poor RICHARD says) the greatest prodigality ; since, as he elsewhere tells us, Lost time is never found again; and what we call Time enough ! always proves little enough. Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose : so, by diligence, shall we do more with less perplexity. Sloth makes all things difficult, but Industry all things easy...
137 페이지 - For instance, my breakfast was a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer with a pewter spoon.
156 페이지 - When Abraham sat at his tent door, according to his custom, waiting to entertain strangers, he espied an old man, stooping and leaning on his staff, weary with age and travel, coming towards him, who was an hundred years of age.