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עמוד 13
... person tender and careful of her , and helpful to her to the amount of ten times their value . If so , they are put to the best use they possibly can be . " A small bequest was made in Franklin's will to his sister Ann's children and ...
... person tender and careful of her , and helpful to her to the amount of ten times their value . If so , they are put to the best use they possibly can be . " A small bequest was made in Franklin's will to his sister Ann's children and ...
עמוד 30
... person ; that with the best natural disposition in the world , she discovers daily the seeds and tokens of in- dustry , economy , and , in short , of every female virtue , which her parents will endeavour to cultivate for him . Six ...
... person ; that with the best natural disposition in the world , she discovers daily the seeds and tokens of in- dustry , economy , and , in short , of every female virtue , which her parents will endeavour to cultivate for him . Six ...
עמוד 31
... person , I am sure , to have wished to see me dressed with singularity ; though I never loved dress so much as to wish to be particularly fine , yet I never will go out when I cannot appear so as to do credit to my family and husband ...
... person , I am sure , to have wished to see me dressed with singularity ; though I never loved dress so much as to wish to be particularly fine , yet I never will go out when I cannot appear so as to do credit to my family and husband ...
עמוד 46
... persons as were now in that chamber , would consume all the air in it in an hour or two ; that by breathing over again the matter thrown off by the lungs and the skin , we should imbibe the real cause of colds , not from abroad , but ...
... persons as were now in that chamber , would consume all the air in it in an hour or two ; that by breathing over again the matter thrown off by the lungs and the skin , we should imbibe the real cause of colds , not from abroad , but ...
עמוד 54
... persons in such a manner that they may be recalled to life at any period , how- ever distant ; for having a very ardent desire to see and ob- serve the state of America a hundred years hence , I should prefer to any ordinary death the ...
... persons in such a manner that they may be recalled to life at any period , how- ever distant ; for having a very ardent desire to see and ob- serve the state of America a hundred years hence , I should prefer to any ordinary death the ...
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עמוד 109 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. 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 113 - We have had some experience of it : several of our young people were formerly brought up at the colleges of the northern provinces ; they were instructed in all your sciences ; but when they came back to us, they were bad runners ; ignorant of every means of living in the woods; unable to bear either cold or hunger; knew neither how to build a cabin, take a deer, or kill an enemy ; spoke our language imperfectly ; were therefore neither fit for hunters, warriors, nor counsellors ; they were totally...
עמוד 393 - Don't give too much for the whistle ; and I saved my money.
עמוד 143 - 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 90 - Tryon's manner of preparing some of his dishes, such as boiling potatoes or rice, making hasty pudding, and a few others, and then proposed to my brother, 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 220 - By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.
עמוד 217 - Tragedy, and contained an account of the drowning of Captain Worthilake, with his two daughters ; the other was a sailor's song, on the taking of Teach (or Blackbeard), the pirate.
עמוד 220 - I took some of the tales and turned them into verse ; and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. I also sometimes jumbled my collections of hints into confusion, and after some weeks endeavored to reduce them into the best order, before I began to form the full sentences and compleat the paper.
עמוד 170 - 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 221 - During my brother's confinement, which I resented a good deal, notwithstanding our private differences, I had the management of the paper; and I made bold to give our rulers some rubs in it, which my brother took very kindly, while others began to consider me in an unfavorable light, as a young genius that had a turn for libelling and satire.