The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Containing the Autobiography, with Notes and a Continuation |
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... soon ; but I failed entirely in arithmetic . At ten years old I was taken to help my father in his business , which was that of a tallow- chandler and soap - boiler ; a business to which he was not bred , but had assumed on his arrival ...
... soon ; but I failed entirely in arithmetic . At ten years old I was taken to help my father in his business , which was that of a tallow- chandler and soap - boiler ; a business to which he was not bred , but had assumed on his arrival ...
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... of management was organized , and an amount of money adequate to the object was soon contributed by the voluntary subscriptions of a large VOL . I B To return ; I continued thus employed in my father's LIFE OF FRANKLIN . 13.
... of management was organized , and an amount of money adequate to the object was soon contributed by the voluntary subscriptions of a large VOL . I B To return ; I continued thus employed in my father's LIFE OF FRANKLIN . 13.
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... soon , and clean . Often I sat up in my cham- ber reading the greatest part of the night , when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned in the morning , lest it should be found missing . After some time a merchant , an ...
... soon , and clean . Often I sat up in my cham- ber reading the greatest part of the night , when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned in the morning , lest it should be found missing . After some time a merchant , an ...
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... soon bring myself into scrapes ; and further , that my indiscreet disputations about religion began to make me pointed at with horror by good people , as an in- fidel and atheist . I concluded , therefore , to remove to New York ; but ...
... soon bring myself into scrapes ; and further , that my indiscreet disputations about religion began to make me pointed at with horror by good people , as an in- fidel and atheist . I concluded , therefore , to remove to New York ; but ...
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... 1727. James Franklin removed soon after to Newport , where he established the Rhode Island Gazette , September , 1732. He died in February , 1735. — Editor . CHAPTER II . - ― --- Journey to Philadelphia . 28 LIFE OF FRANKLIN .
... 1727. James Franklin removed soon after to Newport , where he established the Rhode Island Gazette , September , 1732. He died in February , 1735. — Editor . CHAPTER II . - ― --- Journey to Philadelphia . 28 LIFE OF FRANKLIN .
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Page 510 - I have lived, Sir, a long time ; and, the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that GOD governs in the affairs of men. And, if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid ? We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that, 'except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
Page 110 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Page 593 - 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 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 34 - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.
Page 106 - ORDER Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
Page 515 - Thus I consent, sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best. The opinions I have had of its errors I sacrifice to the public good. I have never whispered a syllable of them abroad. Within these walls they were born and here they shall die.
Page 593 - 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. But the work shall not be lost, For it will, as he believed, appear once more, In a new and more elegant edition, Revised and corrected By THE AUTHOR.
Page 109 - I determined to give a week's strict attention to each of the virtues successively. Thus, in the first week, my great guard was to avoid every the least offence against Temperance, leaving the other virtues to their ordinary chance, only marking every evening the faults of the day. Thus, if in the first week I could keep my first line, marked T...
Page 107 - My intention being to acquire the habitude of all these virtues, I judged it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at once but to fix it on one of them at a time, and when I should be master of that, then to proceed to another, and so on till I should have gone thro