The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author, Volume 2Childs & Peterson, 1840 - United States |
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... greater ; sound his praise In thy eternal course , both when thou climb'st , And when high noon hast gain'd , and when thou fall'st . Moon , that now meet'st the orient sun , now fly'st , With the fix'd stars , fix'd in their orb that ...
... greater ; sound his praise In thy eternal course , both when thou climb'st , And when high noon hast gain'd , and when thou fall'st . Moon , that now meet'st the orient sun , now fly'st , With the fix'd stars , fix'd in their orb that ...
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... greater than Cato ? I happened but the other day to be at a house in town , where , among others , were met men of the most note in this place . Cato had business with some of them , and knocked at the door . The most trifling actions ...
... greater than Cato ? I happened but the other day to be at a house in town , where , among others , were met men of the most note in this place . Cato had business with some of them , and knocked at the door . The most trifling actions ...
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... greater lustre to me , than it had shined in through several generations , I will not here discuss . But so it is , that I am possessed largely of it , and design , if you encourage the proposal , to take this opportunity of doing good ...
... greater lustre to me , than it had shined in through several generations , I will not here discuss . But so it is , that I am possessed largely of it , and design , if you encourage the proposal , to take this opportunity of doing good ...
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... find yourself weary of relieving the miserable ? or of raising the distressed into life or hap- piness ? Or rather , do not you find the pleasure grow upon you by repetition , and that it is greater 54 FRANKLIN'S WRITINGS .
... find yourself weary of relieving the miserable ? or of raising the distressed into life or hap- piness ? Or rather , do not you find the pleasure grow upon you by repetition , and that it is greater 54 FRANKLIN'S WRITINGS .
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... greater in the reflection than in the act itself ? Is there a pleasure upon earth to be compared with that which arises from the sense of making others happy ? Can this pleasure ever be absent , or ever end but with your being ? Does it ...
... greater in the reflection than in the act itself ? Is there a pleasure upon earth to be compared with that which arises from the sense of making others happy ? Can this pleasure ever be absent , or ever end but with your being ? Does it ...
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Page 95 - Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears ; while the used key is ahcays bright, as Poor Richard says. But dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of, as Poor Richard says. How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting, that The sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that There will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.
Page 167 - Doth Job fear God for nought ? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side ? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Page 97 - Three removes are as bad as a fire ' ; and again, ' Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee ' ; and again, ' If you would have your business done, go ; if not, send.' And again, ' He that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.
Page 5 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 167 - And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
Page 92 - Pennsylvania, as it discouraged useless expense in foreign superfluities, some thought it had its share of influence in producing that growing plenty of money, which was observable for several years after its publication. I considered my newspaper, also, as another means of communicating instruction, and in that view frequently reprinted in it extracts from the Spectator, and other moral writers ; and sometimes published little pieces of my own, which had been first composed for reading in our Junto.
Page 93 - I have been, if I may say it without vanity an eminent author of almanacks annually now a full quarter of a century, my brother authors in the same way, for what reason I know not, have ever been very sparing in their applauses, and no other author has taken the least notice of me, so that did...
Page 98 - You call them goods ; but, if you do not take care, they will prove evils to some of you. You expect they will be sold cheap, and perhaps they may for less than they cost ; but, if you have no occasion for them, they must be dear to you.
Page 96 - ... but then the trade must be worked at, and the calling well followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. If we are industrious we shall never starve ; for, as Poor Richard says, At the working-man's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter.
Page 99 - A Ploughman on his Legs is higher than a Gentleman on his Knees, as Poor Richard says. Perhaps they have had a small Estate left them, which they knew not the Getting of ; they think, 'tis Day, and will never be Night...