 | Benjamin Franklin - 1927 - 344 páginas
...arriv'd there about eight or nine o'clock on the Sunday morning, and landed at the Market-street wharf. I have been the more particular in this description...such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since i made there. I was in my working dress, my best •;, clothes being to come round by sea. I was dirty... | |
 | 1914 - 1058 páginas
...extract from Franklin's letter to his son, which voices the object of the statue and its setting : I have been the more particular in this description of my journey that you may compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there. REMINISCENCES... | |
 | Mary Ann Radzinowicz - 1984 - 300 páginas
...arriv'd there about 8 or 9 a Clock, on the Sunday morning, and landed at the Market street Wharff. I have been the more particular in this Description...since made there. I was in my Working Dress, my best Cloaths being to come round by Sea. I was dirty from my Journey; my Pockets were stuffd out with Shirts... | |
 | Peter J. Bailey - 1985 - 248 páginas
...postdating his eighteenth century. And yet, his insistence that his progress through the world is exemplary ("I have been the more particular in this Description of my Journey," he explains in the Autobiography, "and shall be so of my first entry into that City [Philadelphia],... | |
 | Joyce A. Rowe - 1988 - 172 páginas
...has "been the more particular in this Description of my Journey, and ... of my first entry into the City, that you may in your Mind compare such unlikely Beginnings with the Figure I have since then made."14 Forty years after the autobiography was first published, Hawthorne wrote the tale of... | |
 | Herbert A. Leibowitz - 1991 - 420 páginas
...Franklin's "first Entry" into Philadelphia, a wonderful piece of storytelling, is designed, he says, to "compare such unlikely Beginnings with the Figure I have since made there." (75) By emphasizing the "awkward ridiculous Appearance" of the anonymous bumpkinconqueror, surveying... | |
 | Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner - 1997 - 1146 páginas
...the Market street Wharff. — I have been the more particular in this Description of my Journey, & ess of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, Beginning with the Figure I have since made there. I was in my working Dress, my best Cloaths being... | |
 | Rafia Zafar - 1997 - 270 páginas
...time in pointing out the moral: I have been the more particular in this Description of my Journey, & shall be so of my first Entry into that City, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely Beginning with the Figure I have since made there. ... I was dirty from my Journey; my Pockets were... | |
 | Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner - 1997 - 1148 páginas
...arriv'd there about 8 or 9 a Clock, on the Sunday morning, and landed at the Market street Wharff. — which is not at another time. And now, says he, he will eat horse & shall be so of my first Entry into that City, that you may in your Mind compare such unlikely Beginning... | |
 | Susan Clair Imbarrato - 1998 - 200 páginas
...scene begins with his own dramatic preface to alert his son about the pending importance of this image: "I have been the more particular in this Description...Beginnings with the Figure I have since made there" (20). Eight years later, in 1729, Franklin revisits this city and describes the expanding urban scene... | |
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I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there. 
