Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...: Posthumous and other writingsH. Colburn, 1819 |
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... few fall into the right and only infallible method of becoming so . That laudable ambition is too commonly misapplied , and often ill employed . VOL . I. с Some , to make themselves considerable , pursue learning ; PART I. 33 MISCELLANIES .
... few fall into the right and only infallible method of becoming so . That laudable ambition is too commonly misapplied , and often ill employed . VOL . I. с Some , to make themselves considerable , pursue learning ; PART I. 33 MISCELLANIES .
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... learning , when com- pared with virtue ? It is true , we love the hand- some , we applaud the learned , and we fear the rich and powerful ; but we even worship and adore the virtuous . Nor is it strange ' ; since men of virtue are so ...
... learning , when com- pared with virtue ? It is true , we love the hand- some , we applaud the learned , and we fear the rich and powerful ; but we even worship and adore the virtuous . Nor is it strange ' ; since men of virtue are so ...
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... learning and a master of science ; as such I honor you . Know , then , most profound Sir , that I have , from my youth up , been a very in- defatigable student in and admirer of that divine science , astrology . I have read over Scot ...
... learning and a master of science ; as such I honor you . Know , then , most profound Sir , that I have , from my youth up , been a very in- defatigable student in and admirer of that divine science , astrology . I have read over Scot ...
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... learning , but now it is taken for that science which teaches or contemplates whatever is capable of being numbered or measured . That part of the mathematics which relates to numbers only , is called arithmetic ; and that which is con ...
... learning , but now it is taken for that science which teaches or contemplates whatever is capable of being numbered or measured . That part of the mathematics which relates to numbers only , is called arithmetic ; and that which is con ...
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... of Euclid's Elements , ought not to be ranked amongst rational creatures , was unreason- able and unjust ; yet to give a man the character of universal learning , who is destitute of a com- 90 WRITINGS of benJAMIN FRANKLIN ,
... of Euclid's Elements , ought not to be ranked amongst rational creatures , was unreason- able and unjust ; yet to give a man the character of universal learning , who is destitute of a com- 90 WRITINGS of benJAMIN FRANKLIN ,
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