Works of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of His Life, Written by Himself : Together with Essays, Humourous, Moral & Literary, Chiefly in the Manner of the Spectator : in Two Volumes, 1-2. kötetSamuel Campbell, Bookseller, No. 124, Pearl Street, New-York, 1794 |
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12. oldal
... never made ule of it , I have now forgotten it . He was a man of piety , and a conftant attendant on the best preachers , whofe fermons he took a pleasure in writing down according to the expeditor y method he had devifed . Many volumes ...
... never made ule of it , I have now forgotten it . He was a man of piety , and a conftant attendant on the best preachers , whofe fermons he took a pleasure in writing down according to the expeditor y method he had devifed . Many volumes ...
18. oldal
... never engaged , because his numerous family and the mediocrity of his fortune , kept him unre- mittingly employed in the duties of his profeffion . But I very well remember that the leading men of the place ufed frequently to come and ...
... never engaged , because his numerous family and the mediocrity of his fortune , kept him unre- mittingly employed in the duties of his profeffion . But I very well remember that the leading men of the place ufed frequently to come and ...
19. oldal
... never heard either her or my father complain of any other disorder than that of which they died my father at the age of eighty feven , and my mother at eighty - five . They are buried to- gether at Bofton , where , a few years ago , I ...
... never heard either her or my father complain of any other disorder than that of which they died my father at the age of eighty feven , and my mother at eighty - five . They are buried to- gether at Bofton , where , a few years ago , I ...
22. oldal
... never failed to return punctually and without injury . How often has it happened to me to pass the great- er part of the night in reading by my bed - fide , when the book had been lent me in the evening , and was to be returned the next ...
... never failed to return punctually and without injury . How often has it happened to me to pass the great- er part of the night in reading by my bed - fide , when the book had been lent me in the evening , and was to be returned the next ...
24. oldal
... hands . This was a publi- cation I had never fren . I bought the volume , and read it again and again . I was enchanted with it thought the style excellent , and wished it were in . my power to imitate it ; With this view , 24 LIFE OF.
... hands . This was a publi- cation I had never fren . I bought the volume , and read it again and again . I was enchanted with it thought the style excellent , and wished it were in . my power to imitate it ; With this view , 24 LIFE OF.
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10. oldal - I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers and sisters and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth.
128. 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.
10. oldal - ... but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth...
162. oldal - THE BODY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, {like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
30. oldal - Remember that money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned is six, turned again it is seven and threepence, and so on, till it becomes an hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. He that kills a breeding sow destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown destroys all that it might have produced, even...
97. oldal - The business of the women is to take exact notice of what passes, imprint it in their memories, for they have no writing, and communicate it to their children. They are the records of the council, and they preserve...
7. oldal - Good," which, I think, was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor that several leaves of it were torn out, but the remainder gave me such a turn of thinking as to have an influence on my conduct through life; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good than on any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to that book.
57. oldal - But to throw one's self into cold spring water, when the body has been heated by exercise in the sun, is an imprudence which may prove fatal.
54. oldal - I — No wit, no genius, yet for once will try. Various the papers various wants produce, The wants of fashion, elegance, and use.
31. oldal - He that murders a crown destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds. Remember that six pounds a year is but a groat a day. For this little sum (which may be daily wasted either in time or expense unperceived) a man of credit may, on his own security, have the constant possession and use of an hundred pounds.