Benjamin FranklinHoughton Mifflin, 1889 - 428 עמודים |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 35
עמוד 5
... . Various motives thus combined to induce migration . He stole away on board a sloop bound for New York , and after three days arrived there , in October , 1723. He had but a trifling sum of money , and he knew no one EARLY YEARS . 5.
... . Various motives thus combined to induce migration . He stole away on board a sloop bound for New York , and after three days arrived there , in October , 1723. He had but a trifling sum of money , and he knew no one EARLY YEARS . 5.
עמוד 10
... arrived at home , after a tedious voyage , October 11 , 1726. But almost immedi- ately fortune seemed to cross him , for Mr. Denham and he were both taken suddenly ill . Denham died ; Franklin narrowly evaded death , and fancied himself ...
... arrived at home , after a tedious voyage , October 11 , 1726. But almost immedi- ately fortune seemed to cross him , for Mr. Denham and he were both taken suddenly ill . Denham died ; Franklin narrowly evaded death , and fancied himself ...
עמוד 30
... arriving at moral perfection . " It is impossible to recite the details of his scheme , but the narration constitutes one of the most enter- taining and characteristic parts of the autobiogra- phy . Such a plan could not long be ...
... arriving at moral perfection . " It is impossible to recite the details of his scheme , but the narration constitutes one of the most enter- taining and characteristic parts of the autobiogra- phy . Such a plan could not long be ...
עמוד 65
... arrived in London . Immediately he was taken to see Lord Gran- ville , president of the council ; and his account of the interview is too striking not to be given entire . His lordship , he says , " received me with great civility ; and ...
... arrived in London . Immediately he was taken to see Lord Gran- ville , president of the council ; and his account of the interview is too striking not to be given entire . His lordship , he says , " received me with great civility ; and ...
עמוד 83
... arrival his house had been full of a succession of them from morning till night , congratulating him on his return . The Assembly honored him with a vote of thanks , and also voted him £ 3,000 towards defraying his ex- penses . It was ...
... arrival his house had been full of a succession of them from morning till night , congratulating him on his return . The Assembly honored him with a vote of thanks , and also voted him £ 3,000 towards defraying his ex- penses . It was ...
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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.