Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: With Selections from His Other Writings ...D.C. Heath and Company, 1908 - 386 pages |
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... affairs to great as naturally and inevitably as if , from the first , he had foreseen what was to come and had shaped his course with it in view . Nor did he ever attain an eminence which it was beyond his natural qualities to sustain ...
... affairs to great as naturally and inevitably as if , from the first , he had foreseen what was to come and had shaped his course with it in view . Nor did he ever attain an eminence which it was beyond his natural qualities to sustain ...
Page iv
... affairs of public importance , to which he gave a longer time than all the years he had spent in his own business . This later period of Franklin's life belongs , as it were , to the public , and the story of the services he ren- dered ...
... affairs of public importance , to which he gave a longer time than all the years he had spent in his own business . This later period of Franklin's life belongs , as it were , to the public , and the story of the services he ren- dered ...
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... affairs , furnish many illus- trations . 6. It is necessary to remember that Franklin's composition in the Autobiography cannot be used for the purpose of literary study . Indirectly , his diction and phraseology have a whole- some ...
... affairs , furnish many illus- trations . 6. It is necessary to remember that Franklin's composition in the Autobiography cannot be used for the purpose of literary study . Indirectly , his diction and phraseology have a whole- some ...
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... affairs , from 1641 to 1717 ; many of the volumes are wanting as appears by the numbering , but there still remain eight volumes in folio , and twenty - four in quarto and in octavo . A dealer in old books met with them , and knowing me ...
... affairs , from 1641 to 1717 ; many of the volumes are wanting as appears by the numbering , but there still remain eight volumes in folio , and twenty - four in quarto and in octavo . A dealer in old books met with them , and knowing me ...
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... affairs of the town or of the church he belonged to , and showed a good deal of respect for his judgment and advice ; he was also much consulted by private persons about their affairs when any difficulty occurred , and frequently chosen ...
... affairs of the town or of the church he belonged to , and showed a good deal of respect for his judgment and advice ; he was also much consulted by private persons about their affairs when any difficulty occurred , and frequently chosen ...
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Page 296 - Happy the man*, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire.
Page 371 - 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...
Page 143 - ... place. This and the next, Order, I expected would allow me more time for attending to my project and my studies. Resolution, once become habitual, would keep me firm in my...
Page 35 - 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 9 - My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church. My early readiness in learning to read (which must have been very early, as I do not remember when I could not read...
Page 322 - The small progress we have made after four or five weeks' close attendance and continual reasonings with each other, our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many Noes as Ayes, is: methinks a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running all about in search of it.
Page 30 - So I sold some of my books to raise a little money, was taken on board privately, and as we had a fair wind, in three days I found myself in New York, near 300 miles from home, a boy of but 17, without the least recommendation to, or knowledge of any person in the place, and with very little money in my pocket.
Page 172 - The request was fortunately made to perhaps the only man in the company who had the firmness not to be affected by the preacher. His answer was, "At any other time, friend Hopkinson, I would lend to thee freely ; but not now, for thee seems to be out of thy right senses.
Page 369 - Creator of the Universe. That he governs it by his Providence. That he ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable service we render to him is doing good to his other children. That the soul of man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this.
Page 136 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...