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... kind so insufficient - no other which gives , with all its appearance of unity and coherence , so fragmentary an impression of the whole man as he really was . This is not due merely to the fact that the book was unfinished , but far ...
... kind so insufficient - no other which gives , with all its appearance of unity and coherence , so fragmentary an impression of the whole man as he really was . This is not due merely to the fact that the book was unfinished , but far ...
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... kind provi- dence , which lead me to the means I used and gave them success . My belief of this induces me to hope , though I must not presume , that the same goodness will still be exercised toward me , in continuing that happiness ...
... kind provi- dence , which lead me to the means I used and gave them success . My belief of this induces me to hope , though I must not presume , that the same goodness will still be exercised toward me , in continuing that happiness ...
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... kind of curiosity in collecting family anecdotes ) once put into my hands , furnished me with several par- ticulars relating to our ancestors . From these notes I learned that the family had lived in the same vil- lage , Ecton , in ...
... kind of curiosity in collecting family anecdotes ) once put into my hands , furnished me with several par- ticulars relating to our ancestors . From these notes I learned that the family had lived in the same vil- lage , Ecton , in ...
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... kind , so that I was bro't up in such a perfect inattention to those matters as to be quite indifferent what kind of food was set before me , and so unobservant of it , that to this day if I am asked I can scarce tell a few hours after ...
... kind , so that I was bro't up in such a perfect inattention to those matters as to be quite indifferent what kind of food was set before me , and so unobservant of it , that to this day if I am asked I can scarce tell a few hours after ...
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... kind enough to rouse me . This was , therefore , the first house I was in , or slept in , in Philadelphia . Walking down again toward the river , and , look- ing in the faces of people , I met a young Quaker man , whose countenance I ...
... kind enough to rouse me . This was , therefore , the first house I was in , or slept in , in Philadelphia . Walking down again toward the river , and , look- ing in the faces of people , I met a young Quaker man , whose countenance I ...
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Page 99 - ORDER Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4 RESOLUTION Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
Page 23 - I remember his being dissuaded by some of his friends from the undertaking, as not likely to succeed, one newspaper being, in their judgment, enough for America.
Page 95 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Page 104 - 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 19 - I had gone on making verses ; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales and turned them into verse ; and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again.
Page 114 - I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, makes the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.
Page 22 - For, if you would inform, a positive and dogmatical manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly...
Page 30 - Second-street, and ask'd for bisket, intending such as we had in Boston; but they, it seems, were not made in Philadelphia. Then I asked for a three-penny loaf, and was told they had none such. So not considering or knowing the difference of money, and the greater cheapness nor the names of his bread, I bade him give me three-penny worth of any sort. He gave me, accordingly, three great puffy rolls. I was...
Page 70 - I say willful because the instances I have mentioned had something of necessity in them, from my youth, inexperience, and the knavery of others. I had therefore a tolerable character to begin the world with ; I valued it properly, and determined to preserve it.
Page 179 - He liked the thought, undertook the office, and, with the help of a few hands to measure out the liquor, executed it to satisfaction, and never were prayers more generally and more punctually attended ; so that I thought this method preferable to the punishment inflicted by some military laws for non-attendance on divine service.