The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: With Notes and a Sketch of Franklin's Life from the Point where the Autobiography EndsHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1886 - 238 sidor |
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... agreed to it and I pres- ently found that I could save half what he paid me . This was an additional fund for buying books . But I had another advantage in it . My brother and the rest going from the printing - house to their meals , I ...
... agreed to it and I pres- ently found that I could save half what he paid me . This was an additional fund for buying books . But I had another advantage in it . My brother and the rest going from the printing - house to their meals , I ...
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... agreed with the captain of a New York sloop for my passage , under the notion of my being a young acquaintance of his [ that had gotten himself into trouble ] . So I sold some of my books to raise a little money , was taken on board ...
... agreed with the captain of a New York sloop for my passage , under the notion of my being a young acquaintance of his [ that had gotten himself into trouble ] . So I sold some of my books to raise a little money , was taken on board ...
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... agreed to carry him thither . He left me then , prom- ising to remit me the first money he should receive in order to discharge the debt ; but I never heard of him after . BORIAUSING The breaking into this money of Vernon's was one of ...
... agreed to carry him thither . He left me then , prom- ising to remit me the first money he should receive in order to discharge the debt ; but I never heard of him after . BORIAUSING The breaking into this money of Vernon's was one of ...
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... agreed that this might be advanta- geous . " Then , " says he , " get yourself ready to go with Annis , " which was the annual ship , and the only one at that time usually passing between London and Philadelphia . But it would be some ...
... agreed that this might be advanta- geous . " Then , " says he , " get yourself ready to go with Annis , " which was the annual ship , and the only one at that time usually passing between London and Philadelphia . But it would be some ...
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... agreed to try the practice , if I would keep him company . I did so , and we held it for three months . We had our vict- uals dressed , and brought to us regularly by a woman in the neighborhood , who had from me a list of forty dishes ...
... agreed to try the practice , if I would keep him company . I did so , and we held it for three months . We had our vict- uals dressed , and brought to us regularly by a woman in the neighborhood , who had from me a list of forty dishes ...
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Sida 22 - I had gone on making verses ; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales and turned them into verse ; and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again.
Sida 103 - INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employed in something useful ; cut off all unnecessary actions.
Sida 25 - I should think it so or so, for such and such reasons," or "I imagine it to be so," or "It is so if I am not mistaken." This habit, I believe, has been of great advantage to me when I have had occasion to inculcate my opinions and persuade men into measures that I have been from time to time engaged in promoting.
Sida 22 - I thought the writing excellent, and wished if possible to imitate it. With this view I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator...
Sida 90 - ... to show that I was not above my business, I sometimes brought home the paper I purchased at the stores thro' the streets on a wheelbarrow.
Sida 98 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Sida 20 - In a little time I made great proficiency in the business, and became a useful hand to my brother. I now had access to better books. An acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers enabled me sometimes to borrow a small one, which I was careful to return soon and clean. Often I sat up in my...
Sida 109 - And I believe this may have been the case with many, who, having, for want of some such means as I employed, found the difficulty of obtaining good and breaking bad habits in other points of vice and virtue, have given up the struggle, and concluded that "a speckled...
Sida 20 - Often I sat up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.