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... answered , and I replied . Three or four letters of a side had passed , when my father happened to find my papers and read them . Without entering into the discussion , he took occasion to talk to me about the manner of my writing ; ob ...
... answered , and I replied . Three or four letters of a side had passed , when my father happened to find my papers and read them . Without entering into the discussion , he took occasion to talk to me about the manner of my writing ; ob ...
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... answer to his letter , thanked him for his advice , but stated my reasons for quitting Boston fully and in such a light as to convince him I was not so wrong as he had prehended . STAND 20 ap- 280 ; Gie Sir William Keith , governor of ...
... answer to his letter , thanked him for his advice , but stated my reasons for quitting Boston fully and in such a light as to convince him I was not so wrong as he had prehended . STAND 20 ap- 280 ; Gie Sir William Keith , governor of ...
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... answer me the most common question , without asking first , " What do you intend to infer from that ? " However , it gave him so high an opin- ion of my abilities in the confuting way , that he seri- ously proposed my being his ...
... answer me the most common question , without asking first , " What do you intend to infer from that ? " However , it gave him so high an opin- ion of my abilities in the confuting way , that he seri- ously proposed my being his ...
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... of contemporary writers , has these lines : " Silence , ye wolves ! while Ralph to Cynthia howls , And makes night hideous -- answer him , ye owls . " Sicker . paper , etc. For these letters I was BENJAMIN FRANKLIN . 53.
... of contemporary writers , has these lines : " Silence , ye wolves ! while Ralph to Cynthia howls , And makes night hideous -- answer him , ye owls . " Sicker . paper , etc. For these letters I was BENJAMIN FRANKLIN . 53.
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... answered in the affirmative , he said he was sorry for me , because it was an expensive undertak- ing , and the expense would be lost ; for Philadelphia was a sinking place , the people already half bank- rupts , or near being so ; all ...
... answered in the affirmative , he said he was sorry for me , because it was an expensive undertak- ing , and the expense would be lost ; for Philadelphia was a sinking place , the people already half bank- rupts , or near being so ; all ...
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Page 22 - 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 103 - INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employed in something useful ; cut off all unnecessary actions.
Page 25 - I should think it so or so, for such and such reasons," or "I imagine it to be so," or "It is so if I am not mistaken." This habit, I believe, has been of great advantage to me when I have had occasion to inculcate my opinions and persuade men into measures that I have been from time to time engaged in promoting.
Page 22 - I thought the writing excellent, and wished if possible to imitate it. With this view I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator...
Page 90 - ... to show that I was not above my business, I sometimes brought home the paper I purchased at the stores thro' the streets on a wheelbarrow.
Page 98 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Page 20 - In a little time I made great proficiency in the business, and became a useful hand to my brother. I now had access to better books. An acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers enabled me sometimes to borrow a small one, which I was careful to return soon and clean. Often I sat up in my...
Page 109 - And I believe this may have been the case with many, who, having, for want of some such means as I employed, found the difficulty of obtaining good and breaking bad habits in other points of vice and virtue, have given up the struggle, and concluded that "a speckled...
Page 20 - Often I sat up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.