The Life of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Written by Himself ; Together with a Number of His Humorous, Moral, and Literary Essays, Chiefly in the Manner of the SpectatorStarr & Niles, 1823 - 300 lappuses |
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... young Tradesman Necessary Hints to those who would be rich 170 176 178 The way to make Money plenty in every Man's pocket 179 An œconomical Project 180 On modern Innovations in the English Language and in Printing 186 • An Account of ...
... young Tradesman Necessary Hints to those who would be rich 170 176 178 The way to make Money plenty in every Man's pocket 179 An œconomical Project 180 On modern Innovations in the English Language and in Printing 186 • An Account of ...
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... young- est branch of the family , counting five generations . My grandfather , Thomas , who was born in 1598 , liv- ing at Eaton till he was too old to continue his trade , when he retired to Brambury in Oxfordshire , where his son John ...
... young- est branch of the family , counting five generations . My grandfather , Thomas , who was born in 1598 , liv- ing at Eaton till he was too old to continue his trade , when he retired to Brambury in Oxfordshire , where his son John ...
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... young man , a great lover of books , of the name of John Collins , with whom I was intimately connected . We frequently engaged in dispute , and were indeed so fond of argumentation , that nothing was so agreeable to us as a war of ...
... young man , a great lover of books , of the name of John Collins , with whom I was intimately connected . We frequently engaged in dispute , and were indeed so fond of argumentation , that nothing was so agreeable to us as a war of ...
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... to look upon me in an unfavorable point of view , considering me as a young wit inclined to satire and lampoon . My brother's enlargement was accompanied with an arbitrary order from the House of Assembly , " That 30 LIFE OF.
... to look upon me in an unfavorable point of view , considering me as a young wit inclined to satire and lampoon . My brother's enlargement was accompanied with an arbitrary order from the House of Assembly , " That 30 LIFE OF.
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... young man of his acquaintance who had had an affair with a girl of bad character , whose parents wished to compel me to marry her , and that of consequence I could neither make my appear- ance or go off publicly . I sold part of my ...
... young man of his acquaintance who had had an affair with a girl of bad character , whose parents wished to compel me to marry her , and that of consequence I could neither make my appear- ance or go off publicly . I sold part of my ...
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260. lappuse - I doubt, too, whether any other Convention we can obtain may be able to make a better Constitution. For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their pas,sions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views.
157. lappuse - This advice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me; and I often think of it, when I see pride mortified, and misfortunes brought upon people by their carrying their heads too high.
232. lappuse - We are however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, tho* -we decline accepting it : and to show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take great care of their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them.
261. lappuse - Thus I consent, sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best.
232. lappuse - But you who are wise, must know, that different nations have different conceptions of things ; and you will therefore not take it amiss, if our ideas of this kind of education happen not to be the same with yours.
233. lappuse - ... he intended to say or has any thing to add, he may rise again and deliver it. To interrupt another, even in common conversation, is reckoned highly indecent.
177. lappuse - The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but, if he sees you at a billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day; demands it, before he can receive it, in a lump.
159. lappuse - I might have bought with the rest of the money; and laughed at me so much for my folly, that I cried with vexation; and the reflection gave me more chagrin than the whistle gave me pleasure.
177. lappuse - It shows, besides, that you are mindful of what you owe; it makes you appear a careful as well as an honest man, and that still increases your credit. Beware of thinking all your own that you possess, and of living accordingly.
159. lappuse - When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly employing himself in political bustles, neglecting his own affairs, and ruining them by that neglect, He pays, indeed, said I, too much for his whistle.