Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1868 - 409 sidor Charming self-portrait covers boyhood, work as a printer, political career, scientific experiments, much more. Its openness, honesty, and readable style have made the "Autobiography" one of the great classics of the genre. |
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... mention , if I could well have avoided accepting the chair of Presi- dent for this third and last year ; to which I was again elected by the unanimous voice of the Council and General Assembly in November . If I live to see this year ...
... mention , if I could well have avoided accepting the chair of Presi- dent for this third and last year ; to which I was again elected by the unanimous voice of the Council and General Assembly in November . If I live to see this year ...
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... mention from M. Feuillet . I am exceedingly sorry that gentleman cannot complete the translation , as I am confident it would have been well done ; however , it shall not retard the publication of such parts as are translated at the ...
... mention from M. Feuillet . I am exceedingly sorry that gentleman cannot complete the translation , as I am confident it would have been well done ; however , it shall not retard the publication of such parts as are translated at the ...
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... mention concerning the love of praise is indeed very true : it reigns more or less in every heart ; though we are generally hypo- crites , in that respect , and pretend to disregard praise , and our nice , modest ears are offended ...
... mention concerning the love of praise is indeed very true : it reigns more or less in every heart ; though we are generally hypo- crites , in that respect , and pretend to disregard praise , and our nice , modest ears are offended ...
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... mention them , and it is an uncertainty whether others will take due notice of them or not , we are perhaps the more indifferent about them ; so that , upon the whole , I wish the out - of - fashion practice of praising ourselves would ...
... mention them , and it is an uncertainty whether others will take due notice of them or not , we are perhaps the more indifferent about them ; so that , upon the whole , I wish the out - of - fashion practice of praising ourselves would ...
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... mention to you , as it relates to your grandfather . A person that deals in old books , of whom I sometimes buy , acquainted me that he had a curious collection of pamphlets bound in eight volumes folio , and twenty- four volumes quarto ...
... mention to you , as it relates to your grandfather . A person that deals in old books , of whom I sometimes buy , acquainted me that he had a curious collection of pamphlets bound in eight volumes folio , and twenty- four volumes quarto ...
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acquaintance advantage affairs afterwards agreeable appear'd appeared arriv'd Art of Virtue Assembly attended Autograph Benjamin Franklin Boston CALIFORN captain character colonies conduct continu'd continued copy desire dispute Ecton Edition of 1817 England English father France French friends gave give good-natur'd governor grandfather hands honor instructions intended Keimer letter LIBRARY Little Britain lived London Lord Loudoun manner manuscript Memoirs ment never Northamptonshire occasion opinion original pamphlet paper Paris Passy perhaps person Philadelphia piece pounds sterling present printed printer printing-house profit propos'd proposed proprietary province published Quakers Ralph receiv'd received says sect sent Society soon Sparks thing thought thro tion took translation uncle Benjamin Union Fire Company UNIVERS UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Veillard Collection virtue waggons William Franklin William Temple Franklin writing written wrote young
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Sida 100 - I took a delight in it, practis'd it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not foresee, entangling them in difficulties out of which they could not extricate themselves, and so obtaining victories that neither myself nor my cause always deserved.
Sida 101 - If you ask, Why less properly ? I must repeat the lines : " Immodest words admit of no defense For want of modesty is want of sense.
Sida 222 - 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...
Sida 229 - And to this habit (after my character of integrity) I think it principally owing that I had early so much weight with my fellow-citizens when I proposed new institutions, or alterations in the old, and so much influence in public councils when I became a member ; for I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct in language, and yet I generally carried my points.
Sida 209 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Sida 223 - I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had imagined; but I had the satisfaction of seeing them diminish. To avoid the trouble of renewing now and then my little book, which, by scraping out the marks on the paper of old faults to make room for new ones in a new course, became full of holes...
Sida 91 - To return : I continued thus employed in my father's business for two years, that is, till I was twelve years old ; and my brother John, who was bred to that business...
Sida 99 - While I was intent on improving my language, I met with an English Grammar (I think it was Greenwood's), at the end of which there were two little sketches of the arts of rhetoric and logic, the latter finishing with a specimen of a dispute in the Socratic method ; and soon after I procured Xenophon's Memorable Things of Socrates, wherein there are many instances of the same method.
Sida 112 - Second-street, and ask'd for bisket, intending such as we had in Boston; but they, it seems, were not made in Philadelphia. Then I asked for a three-penny loaf, and was told they had none such. So not considering or knowing the difference of money, and the greater cheapness nor the names of his bread, I bade him give me three-penny worth of any sort. He gave me, accordingly, three great puffy rolls. I was...
Sida 221 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
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