The Century: 1898, כרך 57Century Company, 1899 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 100
עמוד 37
... knew her , for she was a good American divisions in Paris , as well as in woman . " MRS . RICHARD BACHE ( SARAH FRANKLIN ) , DAUGHTER OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN . AFTER THE HOPPNER PORTRAIT ' PAINTED IN 1792 , IN POSSESSION OF MRS . DUNCAN S ...
... knew her , for she was a good American divisions in Paris , as well as in woman . " MRS . RICHARD BACHE ( SARAH FRANKLIN ) , DAUGHTER OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN . AFTER THE HOPPNER PORTRAIT ' PAINTED IN 1792 , IN POSSESSION OF MRS . DUNCAN S ...
עמוד 41
... prettiest young gentlemen I ever knew from America , " proving that Franklin's praise was not wholly due to the parental fondness satirized in Poor Richard's lines : Where yet was ever found the mother Who ' d THE MANY - SIDED FRANKLIN .
... prettiest young gentlemen I ever knew from America , " proving that Franklin's praise was not wholly due to the parental fondness satirized in Poor Richard's lines : Where yet was ever found the mother Who ' d THE MANY - SIDED FRANKLIN .
עמוד 46
... knew " very little , " but of whom he hoped that : " His expectations are not great of any fortune to be had with our daughter before our death " ; and then explained : I can only say that if he proves a good husband to her and a good ...
... knew " very little , " but of whom he hoped that : " His expectations are not great of any fortune to be had with our daughter before our death " ; and then explained : I can only say that if he proves a good husband to her and a good ...
עמוד 58
... knew why he was looking at me , and I trembled . At length he spoke : Thou art not one day older than when I dismissed thee from my company . It was indeed the foun- tain of immortality which thou didst discover , and of which thou ...
... knew why he was looking at me , and I trembled . At length he spoke : Thou art not one day older than when I dismissed thee from my company . It was indeed the foun- tain of immortality which thou didst discover , and of which thou ...
עמוד 62
... knew nothing . The beauty of a white - marble statue suddenly changed to burnished gold might be beauty still , but of different expression and mean- ing . There is always something devilish in the too great profusion of precious metal ...
... knew nothing . The beauty of a white - marble statue suddenly changed to burnished gold might be beauty still , but of different expression and mean- ing . There is always something devilish in the too great profusion of precious metal ...
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 138 - Who, doomed to go in company with pain, And fear, and bloodshed, miserable train! Turns his necessity to glorious gain; In face of these doth exercise a power Which is our human nature's highest dower; Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives...
עמוד 505 - AB, profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ, his Eternal Son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit, one God, blessed for evermore ; and do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration.
עמוד 397 - ... that if he would give me, weekly, half the money he paid for my board, I would board myself. He instantly agreed to it, and I presently found that I could save half what he paid me.
עמוד 405 - 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 coppers.
עמוד 514 - Here is my creed. I believe in one God, the creator of the universe. That He governs it by His providence. That He ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable service we render to Him is doing good to His other children. That the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this.
עמוד 399 - ... the best school of philosophy, morality, and politics that then existed in the province; for our queries, which were read the week preceding their discussion, put us upon reading with attention...
עמוד 396 - I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way, since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.
עמוד 397 - ... which I was careful to return soon and clean. 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.
עמוד 515 - Being in conducting me prosperously through a long life, I have no doubt of its continuance in the next, though without the smallest conceit of meriting such goodness.
עמוד 396 - 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...