The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [AutobiographyW. Duane, 1818 |
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... endeavor to fix it on some trade or profession that would keep me on land . It has ever since been a pleasure to me to see good workmen handle their tools ; and it has been often useful to me to have learnt so much by it as to be able ...
... endeavor to fix it on some trade or profession that would keep me on land . It has ever since been a pleasure to me to see good workmen handle their tools ; and it has been often useful to me to have learnt so much by it as to be able ...
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... endeavor to improve my style . About this time I met with an odd volume of the Specta- tor . I had never before seen any of them . I bought it , read it over and over , and was much delighted with it . I thought the writing excellent ...
... endeavor to improve my style . About this time I met with an odd volume of the Specta- tor . I had never before seen any of them . I bought it , read it over and over , and was much delighted with it . I thought the writing excellent ...
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... endeavor to obtain the general esteem , and avoid lampooning and libelling , to which he thought I had too much inclination ; telling me , that by steady industry and prudent parsimony , I might save enough by the time BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ...
... endeavor to obtain the general esteem , and avoid lampooning and libelling , to which he thought I had too much inclination ; telling me , that by steady industry and prudent parsimony , I might save enough by the time BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ...
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... endeavor to recol- lect and write what I can : if I live to get home , it may there be corrected and improved . Not having any copy here of what is already written , I know not whether an account is given of the means I used to ...
... endeavor to recol- lect and write what I can : if I live to get home , it may there be corrected and improved . Not having any copy here of what is already written , I know not whether an account is given of the means I used to ...
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... endeavor , a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been , if I had not attempted it ; as those who aim at perfect writing by imitating the engraved copies , though they never reach the wished - for excellence of those ...
... endeavor , a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been , if I had not attempted it ; as those who aim at perfect writing by imitating the engraved copies , though they never reach the wished - for excellence of those ...
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Seite 475 - I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that GOD governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured, sir, in the Sacred Writings, that ' except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
Seite 89 - Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; ie, waste nothing. 6. INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. 7. SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
Seite 519 - 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. But the work shall not be lost, For it will, as he believed, appear once more, In a new and more elegant edition, Revised and corrected By THE AUTHOR.
Seite 474 - In this situation of this Assembly, groping, as it were, in the dark, to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when .presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights to illuminate our understandings?
Seite 2 - Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves ; but I give it fair quarter wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others that are within his sphere of action ; and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.
Seite 89 - Temperance, for example, was by some confined to eating and drinking, while by others it was extended to mean the moderating every other pleasure, appetite, inclination, or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition. I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, with fewer ideas annexed to each, than a few names with more ideas...
Seite 450 - ... scholars of every faculty, cultivators of the earth, merchants, artisans, manufacturers, and fishermen, unarmed and inhabiting unfortified towns, villages, or places, and in general all persons whose occupations are for the common subsistence and benefit of mankind, shall be allowed to continue their respective employments unmolested in their persons.
Seite 87 - I was now and then prevailed on to do so, once for five Sundays successively. Had he been in my opinion a good preacher, perhaps I might have continued, notwithstanding the occasion I had for the Sunday's leisure in my course of study; but his discourses were chiefly either polemic arguments, or explications of the peculiar doctrines of our sect, and were all to me very dry, uninteresting, and unedifying, since not a single moral principle was inculcated or enforced, their aim seeming to be rather...
Seite 85 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men...
Seite 92 - 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.