Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions, Volume 2C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1850 - Speeches, addresses, etc., American |
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... improvement of the mind , with the most scanty means when faithfully improved . Of the benefit which he derived from the Boston schools , Franklin himself , as I have already stated , retained to the close of his life a grateful ...
... improvement of the mind , with the most scanty means when faithfully improved . Of the benefit which he derived from the Boston schools , Franklin himself , as I have already stated , retained to the close of his life a grateful ...
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... improving his language , he had met with an English Grammar , which contained at the end two little sketches of rhetoric and logic , with a specimen of a dispute in the Socratic method . He soon after procured a translation of ...
... improving his language , he had met with an English Grammar , which contained at the end two little sketches of rhetoric and logic , with a specimen of a dispute in the Socratic method . He soon after procured a translation of ...
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... improved by the rain and the long journey on foot , " dirty from being so long in the boat , the pockets stuffed out with shirts and stockings . " He knew no one , nor where to look for a lodg- ing . Fatigued with walking , rowing , and ...
... improved by the rain and the long journey on foot , " dirty from being so long in the boat , the pockets stuffed out with shirts and stockings . " He knew no one , nor where to look for a lodg- ing . Fatigued with walking , rowing , and ...
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... improved in knowledge than in fortune . On his return to Philadelphia , at the age of twenty , he commenced business as a trader with Mr Denham ; applied himself diligently to his duty , studied accounts , and became expert in selling ...
... improved in knowledge than in fortune . On his return to Philadelphia , at the age of twenty , he commenced business as a trader with Mr Denham ; applied himself diligently to his duty , studied accounts , and became expert in selling ...
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... improvement . Take the case of steam navigation as a striking example . It has been known , for a century or more , that the vapor of boiling water is the most powerful mechanical agent at our command . The steam engine was brought near ...
... improvement . Take the case of steam navigation as a striking example . It has been known , for a century or more , that the vapor of boiling water is the most powerful mechanical agent at our command . The steam engine was brought near ...
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Page 181 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Page 42 - To that kind Providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And have we now forgotten that powerful Friend or do we imagine that we no longer need His assistance? 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 218 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore: his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 150 - So he turned and went away in a rage. And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
Page 36 - Then I turned and went down Chestnut Street and part of Walnut Street, eating my roll all the way, and coming round, found myself again at Market Street wharf, near the boat I came in, to which 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.
Page 42 - I firmly believe this ; and I also believe that without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel. We shall be divided by our little, partial, local interests, our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by-word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and conquest.
Page 153 - Prompted by these actual observations, I could not help taking a more contemplative and extensive view of the vast inland navigation of these United States, and could not but be struck with the immense diffusion and importance of it, and with the goodness of that Providence which has dealt his favours to us with so profuse a hand. Would to God we may have wisdom enough to improve them. I shall not rest contented until I have explored, the western country and traversed those lines, (or great part...
Page 627 - ... where clearer flames glow round the frozen pole: or under southern skies exalt their sails, led by new stars and borne by spicy gales! For me the balm shall bleed, and amber flow, the coral redden, and the ruby glow, the pearly shell its lucid globe infold, and Phoebus warm the ripening ore to gold.
Page 13 - At his table he liked to have, as often as he could, some sensible friend or neighbor to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse, which might tend to improve the minds of his children. By this means he turned our attention to what was good, just, and prudent in the conduct of life...
Page 19 - By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.