The Select Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including His Autobiography |
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... Privy Council Wedderburn's Invective- Described by Dr. Priestley - Hume's Allusion to the Affair Demeanor under Abuse - Turning of the Tables - Who communicated the Letters ? .56 VIII . - Plan of a Continental Congress- Efforts to.
... Privy Council Wedderburn's Invective- Described by Dr. Priestley - Hume's Allusion to the Affair Demeanor under Abuse - Turning of the Tables - Who communicated the Letters ? .56 VIII . - Plan of a Continental Congress- Efforts to.
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... turn of a die may make a great difference in our affairs . We may be either promoted or discarded . " 66 A report that Franklin was intriguing for office under the ministry reached Pennsylvania , and was readily enter- tained by his ...
... turn of a die may make a great difference in our affairs . We may be either promoted or discarded . " 66 A report that Franklin was intriguing for office under the ministry reached Pennsylvania , and was readily enter- tained by his ...
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... turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest ; but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time , leaving the consequences with Providence . On Franklin's introducing himself to Lord ...
... turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest ; but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time , leaving the consequences with Providence . On Franklin's introducing himself to Lord ...
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... turning to me , said , ' My lord is not at home . ' I have never since been nigh him , and we have only abused one another at a distance . " Franklin was destined to experience still another instance of his lordship's caprice . Being at ...
... turning to me , said , ' My lord is not at home . ' I have never since been nigh him , and we have only abused one another at a distance . " Franklin was destined to experience still another instance of his lordship's caprice . Being at ...
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... turns worn out , there only remains divine ; and , when that is grown as insignificant as its predecessors , I think they must return to common speech and common sense . " To a poetaster of the day , Felix Nogaret , who applied to him ...
... turns worn out , there only remains divine ; and , when that is grown as insignificant as its predecessors , I think they must return to common speech and common sense . " To a poetaster of the day , Felix Nogaret , who applied to him ...
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acquaintance affairs afterwards agreeable America appeared appointed Art of Virtue Assembly attended body Boston Britain called chimney cold Colonies conduct conductors Congress continued conversation David Hume dear desire electricity employed endeavor England father favor fire fluid France Franklin French friends gave give Gout governor hand happy heat Helvetius honor hundred John Adams Keimer kind letter live London Lord Camden Lord Chatham Lord Hillsborough Lord Loudoun Lord Stanhope lordship means ment nature never observed obtained occasion opinion paper Parliament Passy Pennsylvania perhaps person Philadelphia pleased pleasure Poor Richard's Almanac pounds pounds sterling present printed printer printing-house procure proposed Proprietary province Quakers reason received respect says seems sent shillings soon suppose things thought tion told took virtue William Temple Franklin wish writing wrote young
Popular passages
Page 101 - 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.
Page 131 - I took a delight in it, practiced it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions the consequences of which they did not foresee, entangling them in difficulties out of which they could not extricate themselves, and so obtaining victories that neither myself nor my cause always deserved.
Page 117 - As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of morals and his religion as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is like to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting changes, and I have with most of the present dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity...
Page 187 - Father of light and life ! thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ! teach me Thyself ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Page 174 - I had been of some service, thought fit to reward me, by employing me in printing the money ; a very profitable job, and a great help to me. This was another advantage gained by my being able to write.
Page 111 - 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.
Page 138 - 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.
Page 157 - I endeavored to convince him that the bodily strength afforded by beer could only be in proportion to the grain or flour of the barley dissolved in the water of which it was made ; that there was more flour in a pennyworth of bread ; and therefore, if he would eat that with a pint of water, it would give him more strength than a quart of beer.
Page 178 - And now I set on foot my first project of a public nature, that for a subscription library. I drew up the proposals, got them put into form by our great scrivener, Brockden, and, by the help of my friends in the Junto, procured fifty subscribers of forty shillings each to begin with, and ten shillings a year for fifty years, the term our company was to continue. We afterwards...
Page 184 - 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; and I included under thirteen names of virtues all that at that time occurred to me as necessary or desirable, and annexed to each a short precept, which fully expressed the extent I gave to its meaning.