The Life of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Written by Himself ; Together with a Number of His Humorous, Moral, and Literary Essays, Chiefly in the Manner of the SpectatorStarr & Niles, 1823 - 300 oldal |
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... employed , and that has crowned them with success . My faith in this respect leads me to hope , though I cannot count upon it , that the divine goodness will still be exercised towards me , either by prolonging the duration of my ...
... employed , and that has crowned them with success . My faith in this respect leads me to hope , though I cannot count upon it , that the divine goodness will still be exercised towards me , either by prolonging the duration of my ...
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... employing gen- tle means only , and such as were calculated to en- courage his scholars . Under him , I soon acquired an ... employed in cutting the wicks , filling the moulds , taking care of the shop , carrying messages , & c . This ...
... employing gen- tle means only , and such as were calculated to en- courage his scholars . Under him , I soon acquired an ... employed in cutting the wicks , filling the moulds , taking care of the shop , carrying messages , & c . This ...
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... medioc- rity of his fortune , kept him unremittingly employed in the duties of his profession . But I well remem- ber that the leading men of the place used fre- quently to come and ask his advice respecting affairs of 18 LIFE OF.
... medioc- rity of his fortune , kept him unremittingly employed in the duties of his profession . But I well remem- ber that the leading men of the place used fre- quently to come and ask his advice respecting affairs of 18 LIFE OF.
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... employed in my fa- till I arrived at twelve years of age . About this time my brother John , who had served his apprenticeship in London , having quitted my father , and being mar- ried and settled in business on his own account at ...
... employed in my fa- till I arrived at twelve years of age . About this time my brother John , who had served his apprenticeship in London , having quitted my father , and being mar- ried and settled in business on his own account at ...
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... employed the time de- voted to them . I found , besides , a work of De Foe's , entitled , An Essay on Projects , from which , perhaps , I derived impressions that have since influenced some of the principal events of my life . My ...
... employed the time de- voted to them . I found , besides , a work of De Foe's , entitled , An Essay on Projects , from which , perhaps , I derived impressions that have since influenced some of the principal events of my life . My ...
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260. oldal - I doubt, too, whether any other Convention we can obtain may be able to make a better Constitution. For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their pas,sions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views.
157. oldal - This advice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me; and I often think of it, when I see pride mortified, and misfortunes brought upon people by their carrying their heads too high.
232. oldal - We are however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, tho* -we decline accepting it : and to show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take great care of their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them.
261. oldal - Thus I consent, sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best.
232. 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.
233. oldal - ... he intended to say or has any thing to add, he may rise again and deliver it. To interrupt another, even in common conversation, is reckoned highly indecent.
177. oldal - The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but, if he sees you at a billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day; demands it, before he can receive it, in a lump.
159. oldal - I might have bought with the rest of the money; and laughed at me so much for my folly, that I cried with vexation; and the reflection gave me more chagrin than the whistle gave me pleasure.
177. oldal - It shows, besides, that you are mindful of what you owe; it makes you appear a careful as well as an honest man, and that still increases your credit. Beware of thinking all your own that you possess, and of living accordingly.
159. oldal - When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly employing himself in political bustles, neglecting his own affairs, and ruining them by that neglect, He pays, indeed, said I, too much for his whistle.