Benjamin FranklinHoughton Mifflin, 1889 - 428 עמודים |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 41
עמוד 4
... already of that calling . Benjamin stood out for some time , but at last reluctantly yielded , and in the maturity of his thirteenth year this child set his hand to an indenture of appren- ticeship which formally bound him to his ...
... already of that calling . Benjamin stood out for some time , but at last reluctantly yielded , and in the maturity of his thirteenth year this child set his hand to an indenture of appren- ticeship which formally bound him to his ...
עמוד 5
... already made himself " a little obnoxious to the governing party , " so as to fear that he might soon " bring himself into scrapes . " For the inher- ited habit of freedom in religious speculation had taken a new form in Franklin , who ...
... already made himself " a little obnoxious to the governing party , " so as to fear that he might soon " bring himself into scrapes . " For the inher- ited habit of freedom in religious speculation had taken a new form in Franklin , who ...
עמוד 25
... already mentioned , in which he expressed these views , was the outburst of a youthful free- thinker not yet accustomed to his new ideas ; not many years passed over his head before it " appear'd not so clever a performance as [ he ] ...
... already mentioned , in which he expressed these views , was the outburst of a youthful free- thinker not yet accustomed to his new ideas ; not many years passed over his head before it " appear'd not so clever a performance as [ he ] ...
עמוד 37
... already represented . At length Franklin was mentioned as being " merely an honest man , and of no sect at all . " The recom- mendation secured his election . It was always a great cause of his success and influence that noth- ing could ...
... already represented . At length Franklin was mentioned as being " merely an honest man , and of no sect at all . " The recom- mendation secured his election . It was always a great cause of his success and influence that noth- ing could ...
עמוד 44
... already been urging this policy by writings in the Gazette , and now , when the ideas of the different commis- sioners were brought into comparison , his were deemed the best . His outline of a scheme , he says , " happen'd to be ...
... already been urging this policy by writings in the Gazette , and now , when the ideas of the different commis- sioners were brought into comparison , his were deemed the best . His outline of a scheme , he says , " happen'd to be ...
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עמוד 203 - 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.
עמוד 405 - I have said he, often and often in the course of the Session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting: But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting Sun.
עמוד 36 - That, as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours ; and this we should do freely and generously.
עמוד 6 - 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 28 - I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some Doubts as to his Divinity; tho...
עמוד 44 - House approved the nomination, and provided the goods for the present, and tho' they did not much like treating out of the provinces; and we met the other commissioners at Albany about the middle of June. In our way thither, I projected and drew a plan for the union of all the colonies under one government, so far as might be necessary for defense and other important general purposes.
עמוד 397 - I had not firmness enough to resist the unanimous desire of my country folks ; and I find myself harnessed again in their service for another year. They engrossed the prime of my life. They have eaten my flesh, and seem resolved now to pick my bones.
עמוד 133 - The very tails of the American sheep are so laden with wool that each has a little car or waggon on four little wheels to support and keep it from trailing on the ground.