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 1C. Tappan, 1844 - United States |
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... Instruction of Germans in Pennsylvania . - CHAPTER XI . • Appointed One of the Commissioners for appropriating the public Money for military Defence.- Proposes a Militia Bill , which pass- es the Assembly . - Commissioned to take Charge ...
... Instruction of Germans in Pennsylvania . - CHAPTER XI . • Appointed One of the Commissioners for appropriating the public Money for military Defence.- Proposes a Militia Bill , which pass- es the Assembly . - Commissioned to take Charge ...
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... instruction and improvement from others , you should not at the same time express yourself fixed in your present opinions . Modest and sensible men , who do not love disputation , will leave you undisturbed in the possession of your ...
... instruction and improvement from others , you should not at the same time express yourself fixed in your present opinions . Modest and sensible men , who do not love disputation , will leave you undisturbed in the possession of your ...
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... instructions he sometimes disregard- ed . Several of our best laws were of his planning , and passed during his administration . Ralph and I were inseparable companions . We took lodgings together in Little Britain at three shillings ...
... instructions he sometimes disregard- ed . Several of our best laws were of his planning , and passed during his administration . Ralph and I were inseparable companions . We took lodgings together in Little Britain at three shillings ...
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... instructions ; so I returned , and we went on more smoothly than for some time before . The New Jersey job was obtained , I contrived a copper - plate press for it , the first that had been seen in the country ; I cut several ornaments ...
... instructions ; so I returned , and we went on more smoothly than for some time before . The New Jersey job was obtained , I contrived a copper - plate press for it , the first that had been seen in the country ; I cut several ornaments ...
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... instructions to demand a settled salary of one thousand pounds sterling per annum , on him and all his successors , and the Assembly were required to fix it immediately , he insisted on it strenuously to the last , and they as ...
... instructions to demand a settled salary of one thousand pounds sterling per annum , on him and all his successors , and the Assembly were required to fix it immediately , he insisted on it strenuously to the last , and they as ...
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Page 102 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men...
Page 111 - 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 fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!
Page 106 - ORDER Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
Page 577 - 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 551 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 10 - 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 552 - As to their studies, it would be well if they could be taught every thing that is useful, and every Iking that is ornamental. But art is long, and their time is short. It is therefore proposed, that they learn those things that are likely to be most useful and most ornamental; regard being had to the several professions for which they are intended.
Page 12 - At his table he liked to have, as often as he could, some sensible friend or neighbour to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse, which might tend to improve the minds of his children. By this means he turned our attention to what was good, just, and prudent in the conduct of life...
Page 247 - I am very sorry, that you intend soon to leave our hemisphere. America has sent us many good things, gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo, &c. ; but you are the first philosopher, and indeed the first great man of letters for whom we are beholden to her.
Page 106 - I concluded, at length, that the mere speculative conviction that it was our interest to be completely virtuous was not sufficient to prevent our slipping; and that the contrary habits must be broken, and good ones acquired and established, before we can have any dependence on 'a steady, uniform rectitude of conduct.