Benjamin Franklin: His LifeGinn, 1888 - 311 pages |
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... once put into my hands , furnished me with several particulars relating to our ancestors . From these notes I learned that the family had lived in the same village , Ecton , in Northamptonshire , 1 for three hundred years , and how much ...
... once put into my hands , furnished me with several particulars relating to our ancestors . From these notes I learned that the family had lived in the same village , Ecton , in Northamptonshire , 1 for three hundred years , and how much ...
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... once , so that it makes two leaves . 2 Octavo : a sheet folded so that it makes eight leaves . 3 The Reformation : the Reformation began in England in the reign of Henry VIII . Protestantism was established by his son , Edward VI ...
... once , so that it makes two leaves . 2 Octavo : a sheet folded so that it makes eight leaves . 3 The Reformation : the Reformation began in England in the reign of Henry VIII . Protestantism was established by his son , Edward VI ...
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... sometimes disputed , and very fond we were of argument , 1 Grub - street : a street in London once famous as the residence of poor authors . and very desirous of confuting one another , which disputa- 18 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF.
... sometimes disputed , and very fond we were of argument , 1 Grub - street : a street in London once famous as the residence of poor authors . and very desirous of confuting one another , which disputa- 18 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF.
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... once , somehow or other , started between Collins and me , of the propriety of educating the female sex in learning , and their abilities for study . He was of opinion that it was improper , and that they were naturally unequal to it ...
... once , somehow or other , started between Collins and me , of the propriety of educating the female sex in learning , and their abilities for study . He was of opinion that it was improper , and that they were naturally unequal to it ...
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... Once , in a boat on the Delaware with some other young men , he refused to row in his turn . " I will be rowed home , " says he . " We will not row you , " says I. " You must , or stay all night on the water , " says he , " just as you ...
... Once , in a boat on the Delaware with some other young men , he refused to row in his turn . " I will be rowed home , " says he . " We will not row you , " says I. " You must , or stay all night on the water , " says he , " just as you ...
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Page 296 - 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 290 - In this situation of this assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings?
Page 17 - Essays to do Good, which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life.
Page 138 - I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver ; and he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket wholly into the collector's dish, — gold and all.
Page 106 - It was about this time I conceiv'd the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection. I wish'd to live without committing any fault at any time ; I would conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other.
Page 34 - Street wharf, near the boat I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water ; and, being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther. Thus...
Page 277 - When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly employing himself in political bustles, neglecting his own affairs, and ruining them by that neglect, He pays, indeed, said I, too much for his whistle.
Page 103 - I found it in a China bowl, with a spoon of silver! They had been bought for me without my knowledge by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum of three-and-twenty shillings, for which she had no other excuse or apology to make, but that she thought her husband deserved a silver spoon and China bowl as well as any of his neighbors.
Page 33 - ... the shore, got into a creek, landed near an old fence, with the rails of which we made a fire, the night being cold, in October, and there we remained till daylight. Then one of the company knew the place to be Cooper's Creek, a little above Philadelphia, which we saw as soon as we got out of the creek, and arrived there about eight or nine o'clock on the Sunday morning, and landed at the Market Street wharf.
Page 11 - 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 give me all his shorthand volumes of sermons, I suppose as a stock...