The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Including a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the War of the Independence...Hunt and Clark, 1826 - 407 pages |
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Page 36
... successful . Admiring Frank- lin's industrious and frugal turn , he now invited him to become his assistant in arranging and packing the goods , and to engage with him afterwards as a supe- rior clerk ; promising that , as soon as he ...
... successful . Admiring Frank- lin's industrious and frugal turn , he now invited him to become his assistant in arranging and packing the goods , and to engage with him afterwards as a supe- rior clerk ; promising that , as soon as he ...
Page 53
... success , at last , in the object which he had in view . To counteract Keimer's plans , he wrote several amusing pieces for Bradford's paper , under the title of the " BUSY BODY . " We extract the first of these papers , as a fair ...
... success , at last , in the object which he had in view . To counteract Keimer's plans , he wrote several amusing pieces for Bradford's paper , under the title of the " BUSY BODY . " We extract the first of these papers , as a fair ...
Page 62
... success , frequent failures , recorded . -His scepticism , and religious notions . - The Junto . - Poor Richard's Alma- nack . His decided success in business . - A celebrated preacher detected as a plagiarist . - A more celebrated one ...
... success , frequent failures , recorded . -His scepticism , and religious notions . - The Junto . - Poor Richard's Alma- nack . His decided success in business . - A celebrated preacher detected as a plagiarist . - A more celebrated one ...
Page 64
... success in public and private life . He once proposed to have enlarged the scheme with a book containing comments on each precept , to be called the " Art of Virtue , " but never com- pleted the design . He tells us however , that his ...
... success in public and private life . He once proposed to have enlarged the scheme with a book containing comments on each precept , to be called the " Art of Virtue , " but never com- pleted the design . He tells us however , that his ...
Page 65
... success can heartily recommend it . The present little sacrifice of vanity will afterwards be amply repaid . If it remains awhile uncertain to whom the merit belongs , some one more vain than yourself would be encouraged to claim it ...
... success can heartily recommend it . The present little sacrifice of vanity will afterwards be amply repaid . If it remains awhile uncertain to whom the merit belongs , some one more vain than yourself would be encouraged to claim it ...
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