The Essays, Humourous, Moral and Literary: Of the Late Benjamin FranklinJ. West, 1811 - 182 pages |
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... proper variation to be used in the management of the voice . We have , therefore , a point , called an interrogation , affixed to the question , in order to distinguish it . But this is absurdly placed at its end , so that the read- er ...
... proper variation to be used in the management of the voice . We have , therefore , a point , called an interrogation , affixed to the question , in order to distinguish it . But this is absurdly placed at its end , so that the read- er ...
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... proper to be established against the abuses of power in those courts . Hitherto there are none . But since so much has been written and published on the federal constitution ; and the necessity of checks , in all other parts of good ...
... proper to be established against the abuses of power in those courts . Hitherto there are none . But since so much has been written and published on the federal constitution ; and the necessity of checks , in all other parts of good ...
Page 65
... proper to have some private store , which you may make use of occasionally . You ought therefore , to provide good water , that of the ship being often bad ; but you must put it into bot- tles , without which you cannot expect to pre ...
... proper to have some private store , which you may make use of occasionally . You ought therefore , to provide good water , that of the ship being often bad ; but you must put it into bot- tles , without which you cannot expect to pre ...
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... proper stock ; but in such a case you may dispose of it to relieve the poor passen- gers , who , paying less for their passage , are . stowed among the common sailors , and have no right to the captain's provisions , except such part of ...
... proper stock ; but in such a case you may dispose of it to relieve the poor passen- gers , who , paying less for their passage , are . stowed among the common sailors , and have no right to the captain's provisions , except such part of ...
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... proper for containing soup for one person only . By this disposition , the soup , in an extraordinary roll , would not be thrown out of the plate , and would not fall into the breasts of those who are at table , and scald them . Hav ...
... proper for containing soup for one person only . By this disposition , the soup , in an extraordinary roll , would not be thrown out of the plate , and would not fall into the breasts of those who are at table , and scald them . Hav ...
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Page 134 - It therefore astonishes me, sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does ; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our councils are confounded, like those of the builders of Babel ; and that our states are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose of cutting one another's throats. Thus I consent, sir, to this Constitution, because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.
Page 98 - We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though 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.
Page 133 - 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 passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views.
Page 32 - 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.
Page 98 - ... 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.
Page 10 - I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers and sisters and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth. This put me in mind what good things I might have bought with the rest of the money; and they 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.
Page 32 - Remember this saying, The good paymaster is lord of another man's purse. He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the time he promises, may at any time, and on any occasion, raise all the money his friends can spare. This is sometimes of great use.
Page 126 - Tolerably good workmen in any of those mechanic arts are sure to find employ, and to be well paid for their work, there being no restraints preventing strangers from exercising any art they understand, nor any permission necessary. If they are poor, they begin first as servants or journeymen ; and if they are sober, industrious, and frugal, they soon become masters, establish themselves in business, marry, raise families, and become respectable citizens.
Page 133 - But, though many private persons think almost as highly of their own infallibility as of that of their own sect, few express it so naturally as a certain French lady, who, in a little dispute with her sister, said, I dont know how it happens, sister, but I meet with nobody but myself that is always in the right.
Page 17 - the opinion of learned philosophers of our race, who lived and flourished long before my time, that this vast world, the Moulin Joly, could not itself subsist more than eighteen hours ; and I think there was some foundation for that opinion, since, by the apparent motion of the great luminary that gives life to all nature, and which in my time has evidently declined considerably...