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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... my pockets lined with near five pounds sterling in silver . He re- ceived me not very frankly , looked me all over , and turned to his work again . OUDCDAW The journeymen were inquisitive where I had been , BENJAMIN FRANKLIN . 41.
... my pockets lined with near five pounds sterling in silver . He re- ceived me not very frankly , looked me all over , and turned to his work again . OUDCDAW The journeymen were inquisitive where I had been , BENJAMIN FRANKLIN . 41.
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... looked pale , but was never sick ; and I give it as another in- stance on how small an income life and health may be supported . At Watts's printing - house I contracted an acquaint- ance with an ingenious young man , one Wygate , who ...
... looked pale , but was never sick ; and I give it as another in- stance on how small an income life and health may be supported . At Watts's printing - house I contracted an acquaint- ance with an ingenious young man , one Wygate , who ...
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... looked up and saw me , called out to me in a loud voice and angry tone to mind my business , adding some re- proachful words , that nettled me the more for their publicity , all the neighbors who were looking out on the same occasion ...
... looked up and saw me , called out to me in a loud voice and angry tone to mind my business , adding some re- proachful words , that nettled me the more for their publicity , all the neighbors who were looking out on the same occasion ...
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... people and the king and led finally to the War for Independence . The people looked upon the salary as a tax forced upon them . J J handle a pen , thought it convenient to BENJAMIN FRANKLIN . 85 IN BUSINESS FOR HIMSELF.
... people and the king and led finally to the War for Independence . The people looked upon the salary as a tax forced upon them . J J handle a pen , thought it convenient to BENJAMIN FRANKLIN . 85 IN BUSINESS FOR HIMSELF.
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... looked round me and made overtures of ac- quaintance in other places ; but soon found that , the business of a printer being generally thought a poor one , I was not to expect money with a wife , unless with such a one as I should not ...
... looked round me and made overtures of ac- quaintance in other places ; but soon found that , the business of a printer being generally thought a poor one , I was not to expect money with a wife , unless with such a one as I should not ...
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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.