The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Containing the Autobiography, with Notes and a Continuation |
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... Answers to Mr. Strahan's Queries . Repeal of some of the American Rev- enue Acts . -Intimations that he would be ... Answer . - Reasons for settling a New Colony west of the Alleganies . Interview with Lord Hills- borough at Oxford ...
... Answers to Mr. Strahan's Queries . Repeal of some of the American Rev- enue Acts . -Intimations that he would be ... Answer . - Reasons for settling a New Colony west of the Alleganies . Interview with Lord Hills- borough at Oxford ...
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... Answer to them . - His Friends at Passy and Auteuil . Madame Brillon . — Madame Helvétius . - CHAPTER XIII . - - - • 459 Negotiations for Peace . - Debates on the Subject in the British Parliament.Change of Ministry . - Mr. Oswald sent ...
... Answer to them . - His Friends at Passy and Auteuil . Madame Brillon . — Madame Helvétius . - CHAPTER XIII . - - - • 459 Negotiations for Peace . - Debates on the Subject in the British Parliament.Change of Ministry . - Mr. Oswald sent ...
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... answered , and I replied . Three or four letters on a side had passed , when my father happened to find my papers and read them . Without entering into the subject in dispute , he took occasion to talk to me about my manner of writing ...
... answered , and I replied . Three or four letters on a side had passed , when my father happened to find my papers and read them . Without entering into the subject in dispute , he took occasion to talk to me about my manner of writing ...
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... passed upon him , even to the taking away part of his livelihood , without being called to make an answer . An indifferent person would judge by this vote against with the captain of a New York sloop to take LIFE OF FRANKLIN . 27.
... passed upon him , even to the taking away part of his livelihood , without being called to make an answer . An indifferent person would judge by this vote against with the captain of a New York sloop to take LIFE OF FRANKLIN . 27.
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... answer to his letter , thanked him for his advice , but stated my reasons for quitting Boston so fully and in such a light , as to convince him that I was not so much in the wrong as he had apprehended . Sir William Keith , Governor of ...
... answer to his letter , thanked him for his advice , but stated my reasons for quitting Boston so fully and in such a light , as to convince him that I was not so much in the wrong as he had apprehended . Sir William Keith , Governor of ...
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Page 20 - By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.
Page 35 - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.
Page 107 - ORDER Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
Page 100 - The institution soon manifested its utility, was imitated by other towns, and in other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations; reading became fashionable; and our people, having no public amusements to divert their attention from study, became better acquainted with books, and in a few years were observed by strangers to be better instructed and more intelligent than people of the same rank generally are in other countries.
Page 112 - 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 61 - Water-American, as they called me, was stronger than themselves, who drank strong beer! We had an alehouse boy who attended always in the house to supply the workmen. My companion at the press drank every day a pint before breakfast, a pint at breakfast with his bread and cheese, a pint between breakfast and dinner, a pint at dinner, a pint in the afternoon about six o'clock, and another when he had done his day's work.
Page 11 - My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the church. My early readiness in learning to read (which must have been very early, as I do not remember when I could not read ) and the opinion of all his friends that I should certainly make a good scholar encouraged him in this purpose of his. My uncle Benjamin, too, approved of it, and proposed to...
Page 31 - I reached through the water to his shock pate and drew him up, so that we got him in again. His ducking sobered him a little, and he went to sleep, taking first out of his pocket a book, which he desired I would dry for him. It proved to be my old favorite author, Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress...
Page 105 - 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...
Page 608 - I would have the managers of the donation to the town of Boston then lay out, at their discretion, one hundred thousand pounds in public works, which may be judged of most general utility to the inhabitants ; such as fortifications, bridges, aqueducts, public buildings, baths, pavement?, or whatever may make living in the town more convenient to its people, and render it more agreeable to strangers resorting thither for health or a temporary residence.