The Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Now First Collected and Arranged: With Memories of His Early Life, 3. kötetJ. Johnson, 1806 |
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32. oldal
... lives , and liberties , are likely to be better judges of the quantity of forces necessary to be raised and maintained , forts to be built and supported , and of their own abilities to bear the ex- pence than the parliament of England ...
... lives , and liberties , are likely to be better judges of the quantity of forces necessary to be raised and maintained , forts to be built and supported , and of their own abilities to bear the ex- pence than the parliament of England ...
36. oldal
... lives and fortunes in subduing and settling new countries , extending the dominion , and increasing the commerce of the mother - nation , they have forfeited the the native rights of Britons ; which they think ought 36 PAPERS ON ...
... lives and fortunes in subduing and settling new countries , extending the dominion , and increasing the commerce of the mother - nation , they have forfeited the the native rights of Britons ; which they think ought 36 PAPERS ON ...
39. oldal
... lives at Birmingham or Sheffield , or both ; since they are still within its bounds , and their wealth and persons still at its command ? Could the Goodwin Sands be laid dry by banks , and land equal to a large country thereby gained to ...
... lives at Birmingham or Sheffield , or both ; since they are still within its bounds , and their wealth and persons still at its command ? Could the Goodwin Sands be laid dry by banks , and land equal to a large country thereby gained to ...
40. oldal
... live and thrive in the new country , as well as the old one in the old ? In fine , why should the countenance of a ... lives and private fortunes in new and strange countries , methinks ought rather to expect some preference . With the ...
... live and thrive in the new country , as well as the old one in the old ? In fine , why should the countenance of a ... lives and private fortunes in new and strange countries , methinks ought rather to expect some preference . With the ...
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... lives , laws , liberties , privileges , and properties of the people thereby rendered precarious and altogether insecure ; to the great disgrace of our laws , and the inconceivable injury of his majesty's subjects . Your committee ...
... lives , laws , liberties , privileges , and properties of the people thereby rendered precarious and altogether insecure ; to the great disgrace of our laws , and the inconceivable injury of his majesty's subjects . Your committee ...
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448. oldal - Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears ; while the used key is always bright, as Poor Richard says. But dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is the stuff" life is made of, as Poor Richard says. How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep ! forgetting, that The sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping etwugh in the grave, as Poor Richard says.
451. oldal - Master will do more Work than both his Hands; and again, Want of Care does us more Damage than want of Knowledge; and again, Not to oversee Workmen is to leave them your Purse open. Trusting too much to others...
381. oldal - But you who are wise must know, that different nations have different conceptions of things ; and you will therefore not take it amiss, if our ideas of this kind of education happen not to be the same with yours.
448. oldal - I stopped my horse lately where a great number of people were collected at an auction of merchants' goods. The hour of the sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times ; and one of the company called to a plain, clean old man with white locks, " Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the times ? Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? How shall we ever be able to pay them ? What would you advise us to do ? " Father Abraham stood up and replied, " If you would...
455. oldal - ... attend it, because we cannot spare the ready money, and hope now to be fine without it. But, ah ! think what you do when you run in debt ; you give to another power over your liberty. If you cannot pay at the time, you will be ashamed to see your creditor ; you will be in fear when you speak to him ; you will make poor pitiful sneaking excuses, and, by degrees, come to lose your veracity, and sink into base downright lying ; for ' The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt...
459. oldal - In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
451. oldal - 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...
412. oldal - For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.
457. oldal - Thus the old gentleman ended his harangue. The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practised the contrary, just as if it had been a common sermon ; for 'the auction opened, and they began to buy extravagantly.
448. oldal - ... commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an abatement. However, let us hearken to good advice, and something may be done for us : G-od helps them that help themselves, as Poor Richard says.