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... desired I would dry for him . It proved to be my old favorite author , Bunyan's Pil- grim's Progress , in Dutch , finely printed on good paper , with copper cuts , a dress better than I had ever seen it wear in its own language . I have ...
... desired I would dry for him . It proved to be my old favorite author , Bunyan's Pil- grim's Progress , in Dutch , finely printed on good paper , with copper cuts , a dress better than I had ever seen it wear in its own language . I have ...
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... desired to be acquainted with me , blamed me kindly for not having made myself known to him when I first came to the place , and would have me away with him to the tavern , where he was going with Colonel French to taste , as he said ...
... desired to be acquainted with me , blamed me kindly for not having made myself known to him when I first came to the place , and would have me away with him to the tavern , where he was going with Colonel French to taste , as he said ...
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... Vernon , having some money due to him in Penn- sylvania , about thirty - five pounds currency , desired I would receive it for him , and keep it till I had his HEADY directions what to remit it in . Accordingly , BENJAMIN FRANKLIN . 43.
... Vernon , having some money due to him in Penn- sylvania , about thirty - five pounds currency , desired I would receive it for him , and keep it till I had his HEADY directions what to remit it in . Accordingly , BENJAMIN FRANKLIN . 43.
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... desired he would bring me to see him . I waited upon him accordingly , and should have taken Collins with me but that he was not sober . The gov- ernor treated me with great civility , showed me his li- brary , which was a very large ...
... desired he would bring me to see him . I waited upon him accordingly , and should have taken Collins with me but that he was not sober . The gov- ernor treated me with great civility , showed me his li- brary , which was a very large ...
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... desired it . Our supper was only half an anchovy each , on a very little strip of bread and butter , and half a pint of ale between us ; but the entertainment was in her conver- sation . My always keeping good hours , and giving little ...
... desired it . Our supper was only half an anchovy each , on a very little strip of bread and butter , and half a pint of ale between us ; but the entertainment was in her conver- sation . My always keeping good hours , and giving little ...
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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.