The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac, and Other PapersA. L. Burt Company - 308 pages |
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... tion , so natural to old men , of talking of themselves and their own actions ; and I shall indulge it without being tiresome to those who , from respect to my age , might conceive themselves obliged to listen to me , since they will be ...
... tion , so natural to old men , of talking of themselves and their own actions ; and I shall indulge it without being tiresome to those who , from respect to my age , might conceive themselves obliged to listen to me , since they will be ...
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... tion and endeavor to fix it on some trade or profession that would keep me on land . It has ever since been a pleasure to me to see good workmen handle their tools . And it has been often useful to me to have learned so much by it as to ...
... tion and endeavor to fix it on some trade or profession that would keep me on land . It has ever since been a pleasure to me to see good workmen handle their tools . And it has been often useful to me to have learned so much by it as to ...
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... tion their papers were received with , I was excited to try my hand among them . But being still a boy , and suspecting that my brother would object to printing anything of mine in his paper if he knew it to be mine , I contrived to ...
... tion their papers were received with , I was excited to try my hand among them . But being still a boy , and suspecting that my brother would object to printing anything of mine in his paper if he knew it to be mine , I contrived to ...
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... tion of my intention to set up there or anywhere . These friends were afterward of great use to me , as I occasionally was to some of them . They all continued their regard for me as long as they lived . Before I enter upon my public ...
... tion of my intention to set up there or anywhere . These friends were afterward of great use to me , as I occasionally was to some of them . They all continued their regard for me as long as they lived . Before I enter upon my public ...
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... tion . From that period the Americans have imported great quantities of plaster of Paris . " - Chaptal's " Agricultural Chem- istry , " Boston edition , p . 73.-ED. * Down to this period the memoir was written in BENJAMIN FRANKLIN . 87.
... tion . From that period the Americans have imported great quantities of plaster of Paris . " - Chaptal's " Agricultural Chem- istry , " Boston edition , p . 73.-ED. * Down to this period the memoir was written in BENJAMIN FRANKLIN . 87.
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Page 224 - So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business ; but to these we must add frugality, if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will, as Poor Richard says; and — Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea ' forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting.
Page 230 - This doctrine, my friends, is reason and wisdom; but, after all do not depend too much upon your own industry and frugality and prudence, though excellent 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 afterward prosperous. " And now, to conclude, Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other...
Page 105 - Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme! O teach me what is good; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!
Page 226 - You call them Goods, but if you do not take Care, they will prove Evils to some of you. You expect they will be sold cheap, and perhaps they may for less than they cost; but if you have no Occasion for them, they must be dear to you. Remember what Poor Richard says, Buy what thou hast no Need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries.
Page 30 - I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there.
Page 131 - 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 coppers.
Page 226 - By these, and other Extravagancies, the Genteel are Reduced to Poverty, and forced to borrow of those whom they formerly despised, but who through Industry and Frugality have maintained their Standing; in which case it appears plainly...
Page 31 - 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.
Page 87 - Our debates possessed me so fully of the subject that I wrote and printed an anonymous pamphlet on it, entitled The Nature and Necessity of a Paper Currency.
Page 31 - 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. Thus...