The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author, כרך 1Hilliard, Gray,, 1840 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 71
עמוד xxv
... Acquaintances . - Patronized by Sir William Keith , Governor of Pennsylvania . - First Inter- view with him . - Keith proposes to set him up in Business . — Returns to Boston . His Father disapproves Keith's Plan . Voyage to New York ...
... Acquaintances . - Patronized by Sir William Keith , Governor of Pennsylvania . - First Inter- view with him . - Keith proposes to set him up in Business . — Returns to Boston . His Father disapproves Keith's Plan . Voyage to New York ...
עמוד xxviii
... in which his Ancestors were born . - Forms an Acquaintance with Bas- kerville . - Publishes the " Historical Review of Pennsylvania . " - Authorship of that Work . 229 -- -- CHAPTER II . - ― Franklin advises the xxviii CONTENTS .
... in which his Ancestors were born . - Forms an Acquaintance with Bas- kerville . - Publishes the " Historical Review of Pennsylvania . " - Authorship of that Work . 229 -- -- CHAPTER II . - ― Franklin advises the xxviii CONTENTS .
עמוד 7
... acquaintances determined to go to that country , and he was prevailed with to accompany them . thither , where they expected to enjoy the exercise of their religion with freedom . By the same wife my Franklin from London , " and the ...
... acquaintances determined to go to that country , and he was prevailed with to accompany them . thither , where they expected to enjoy the exercise of their religion with freedom . By the same wife my Franklin from London , " and the ...
עמוד 16
... acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers enabled me some- times to borrow a small one , which I was careful to return soon , and clean . Often I sat up in my cham- ber reading the greatest part of the night , when the book was ...
... acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers enabled me some- times to borrow a small one , which I was careful to return soon , and clean . Often I sat up in my cham- ber reading the greatest part of the night , when the book was ...
עמוד 20
... acquainted with Tryon's manner of preparing some of his dishes , such as boiling potatoes or rice , making hasty - pudding and a few others , and then pro- posed to my brother , that if he would give me weekly half the money he paid for ...
... acquainted with Tryon's manner of preparing some of his dishes , such as boiling potatoes or rice , making hasty - pudding and a few others , and then pro- posed to my brother , that if he would give me weekly half the money he paid for ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
acquaintance advantage affairs afterwards American appeared appointed arrived Art of Virtue Assembly attended Benjamin Franklin Boston British brother called captain colonies commissioners conduct Congress continued Ecton EDITOR employed endeavour England England Courant father favor France French friends gave give Governor hands honor Hugh Meredith instructions Keimer King letters lived lodged London Lord Lord Chatham Lord Hillsborough Lord Kames means ment ministers never obtained occasion opinion pamphlet paper Paris Parliament Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Gazette persons Philadelphia pieces political pounds pounds sterling present principles printed printer printing-house procure proposed Proprietaries province published Quakers Ralph received respect sail says seems sent ship Society soon Stamp Act Street thing thought tion took town treaty Vergennes virtue volumes William William Temple Franklin writing wrote young
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 102 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men...
עמוד 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!
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 106 - ORDER Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
עמוד 571 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
עמוד 18 - 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.
עמוד 110 - ... the first, proceeds to a second; so I should have (I hoped) the encouraging pleasure of seeing on my pages the progress I made in virtue by clearing successively my lines of their spots, till in the end by a number of courses, I should be happy in viewing a clean book after a thirteen weeks
עמוד 10 - My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. 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...
עמוד 597 - 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.