The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [AutobiographyW. Duane, 1818 |
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... kind advice , and promised to follow it . When we arrived at New York , they told me where they lived , and invited me to come and see them , but I avoided it , and it was well I did . For the next day the captain missed a silver spoon ...
... kind advice , and promised to follow it . When we arrived at New York , they told me where they lived , and invited me to come and see them , but I avoided it , and it was well I did . For the next day the captain missed a silver spoon ...
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... kind , might not be of some advantage ; " then , " said he , “ when there you may make acquaintance , and es- tablish correspondences in the bookselling and stationary way . " I agreed , that this might be advantageous . Then , said he ...
... kind , might not be of some advantage ; " then , " said he , “ when there you may make acquaintance , and es- tablish correspondences in the bookselling and stationary way . " I agreed , that this might be advantageous . Then , said he ...
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... kind of unprovoked murder , since none of them had nor could do us any injury that might justify this massacre . All this seemed very reasonable . But I had been formerly a great lover of fish , and when it came out of the frying - pan ...
... kind of unprovoked murder , since none of them had nor could do us any injury that might justify this massacre . All this seemed very reasonable . But I had been formerly a great lover of fish , and when it came out of the frying - pan ...
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... long lost . The great uncertainty I found in meta- physical reasonings disgusted me , and I quitted that kind of reading and study for others more satisfactory . " goodness and power , concluded that nothing could possibly be 60 MEMOIRS OF.
... long lost . The great uncertainty I found in meta- physical reasonings disgusted me , and I quitted that kind of reading and study for others more satisfactory . " goodness and power , concluded that nothing could possibly be 60 MEMOIRS OF.
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... kind hand of Providence , or some guardian angel , or accidental favorable circumstances and situations , or all together , preserved me through this danger- ous time of youth and the hazardous situations I was sometimes in among ...
... kind hand of Providence , or some guardian angel , or accidental favorable circumstances and situations , or all together , preserved me through this danger- ous time of youth and the hazardous situations I was sometimes in among ...
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475 페이지 - 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. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured, sir, in the Sacred Writings, that ' except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
89 페이지 - Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; ie, waste nothing. 6. INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. 7. SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
519 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. But the work shall not be lost, For it will, as he believed, appear once more, In a new and more elegant edition, Revised and corrected By THE AUTHOR.
474 페이지 - 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?
2 페이지 - Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves ; but I give it fair quarter wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others that are within his sphere of action ; and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.
89 페이지 - Temperance, for example, was by some confined to eating and drinking, while by others it was extended to mean the moderating every other pleasure, appetite, inclination, or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition. 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...
450 페이지 - ... scholars of every faculty, cultivators of the earth, merchants, artisans, manufacturers, and fishermen, unarmed and inhabiting unfortified towns, villages, or places, and in general all persons whose occupations are for the common subsistence and benefit of mankind, shall be allowed to continue their respective employments unmolested in their persons.
87 페이지 - I was now and then prevailed on to do so, once for five Sundays successively. Had he been in my opinion a good preacher, perhaps I might have continued, notwithstanding the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study; but his discourses were chiefly either polemic arguments, or explications of the peculiar doctrines of our sect, and were all to me very dry, uninteresting, and unedifying, since not a single moral principle was inculcated or enforced, their aim seeming to be rather...
85 페이지 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men...
92 페이지 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.