Benjamin Franklin: Printer, Statesman, Philosopher and Practical Citizen, 1706-1790G. P. Putnam's sons, 1898 - 354 pages |
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... admiration , particularly at a time when we hear loud complaints about " political corruption , ' " civic demoralisation , " and the like . Franklin was the embodiment of public spirit . His curious com- bination of lofty patriotism and ...
... admiration , particularly at a time when we hear loud complaints about " political corruption , ' " civic demoralisation , " and the like . Franklin was the embodiment of public spirit . His curious com- bination of lofty patriotism and ...
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... admiration as it came from many parts of the civilised world , and who was to die in the odour of an international reputation , began to work out his existence amid the not over- inspiring atmosphere of a soap - boiling and tallow ...
... admiration as it came from many parts of the civilised world , and who was to die in the odour of an international reputation , began to work out his existence amid the not over- inspiring atmosphere of a soap - boiling and tallow ...
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... admiration as it came from many parts of the civilised world , and who was to die in the odour of an international reputation , began to work out his existence amid the not over- inspiring atmosphere of a soap - boiling and tallow ...
... admiration as it came from many parts of the civilised world , and who was to die in the odour of an international reputation , began to work out his existence amid the not over- inspiring atmosphere of a soap - boiling and tallow ...
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... admiring attention of Sir William Keith , then Governor of the province of Pennsylvania . It was an attention which Franklin would live to wish that he had never excited . The beginning of the affair seemed , however , full of promise ...
... admiring attention of Sir William Keith , then Governor of the province of Pennsylvania . It was an attention which Franklin would live to wish that he had never excited . The beginning of the affair seemed , however , full of promise ...
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... admired the dash- ing impersonations of Wilkes , the eccentricities of Cibber , and the charms of the sprightly Oldfield . From this enjoyment Franklin acquired his pro- nounced taste for the drama . Later in his varied career , the ...
... admired the dash- ing impersonations of Wilkes , the eccentricities of Cibber , and the charms of the sprightly Oldfield . From this enjoyment Franklin acquired his pro- nounced taste for the drama . Later in his varied career , the ...
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Page 241 - MR. STRAHAN, You are a member of parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. — You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our people. — Look upon your hands! — They are stained with the blood of your relations ! — You and I were long friends: — You are now my enemy, — and I am • Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
Page 330 - 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 46 - FOLLY; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us, by allowing an abatement. However, let us hearken to good advice, and something may be done for us; God helps them that help themselves, as Poor Richard says in his Almanack of 1733.
Page 18 - I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there. I was in my working dress, my best clothes being to come round by sea.
Page 323 - It, therefore, astonishes me, sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does: and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our councils are confounded, like those of the builders of Babel, and that our States are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose of cutting one another's throats.
Page 176 - America is obstinate ; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Page 178 - They were governed by this country at the expense only of a little pen, ink, and paper. They were led by a thread. They had not only a respect but an affection for Great Britain; for its laws, its customs and manners, and even a fondness for its fashions, that gready increased the commerce.
Page 52 - We have an English proverb that says, " He that would thrive, must ask his wife" It was lucky for me that I had one as much disposed to industry and frugality as myself.
Page 194 - ... tes, and villains of every denomination, who have forfeited their lives to the law in Prussia; but whom we, in our great clemency, do not think fit here to hang, shall be emptied out of our gaols into the said island of Great Britain, for the better peopling of that country.
Page 3 - I was born and bred, to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world, and having gone so far thro' life with a considerable share of felicity, the conducing means I made use of, which, with the blessing of God, so well succeeded, my posterity may like to know, as they may find some of them suitable to their own situations, and therefore fit to be imitated.