The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author, 2. köideC. Tappan, 1844 |
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... continue in a restless obscurity , without having an opportunity of knowing his own merit himself or discovering it to the world , rather than venture to oppose himself in a place where a pun or a sneer shall pass for wit , noise for ...
... continue in a restless obscurity , without having an opportunity of knowing his own merit himself or discovering it to the world , rather than venture to oppose himself in a place where a pun or a sneer shall pass for wit , noise for ...
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... continue drawing characters , viz . Why should any man's picture be published , which he never sat for ; or his good name taken from him , any more than his money or possessions , at the arbitrary will of another , & c . ? I have but ...
... continue drawing characters , viz . Why should any man's picture be published , which he never sat for ; or his good name taken from him , any more than his money or possessions , at the arbitrary will of another , & c . ? I have but ...
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... continue openly to attack , with the freedom of an honest man and a lover of my country . I profess I can hardly contain myself , or preserve the gravity and dignity , that should attend the cen- sorial office , when I hear the odd and ...
... continue openly to attack , with the freedom of an honest man and a lover of my country . I profess I can hardly contain myself , or preserve the gravity and dignity , that should attend the cen- sorial office , when I hear the odd and ...
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... continue its motion . It is owing to what I call the idiosyncracy of the person's body , who holds the twig , for I believe there is not one in five hundred in whose hands it will move . I am apt to think it will occasion as much ...
... continue its motion . It is owing to what I call the idiosyncracy of the person's body , who holds the twig , for I believe there is not one in five hundred in whose hands it will move . I am apt to think it will occasion as much ...
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... continues no longer than the action itself ; but this divine or moral pleasure continues when the action is over , and swells and grows upon your hand by re- flection . The one is inconstant , unsatisfying , of short duration , and ...
... continues no longer than the action itself ; but this divine or moral pleasure continues when the action is over , and swells and grows upon your hand by re- flection . The one is inconstant , unsatisfying , of short duration , and ...
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Page 438 - 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, or counsellors; they were totally good for nothing.
Page 93 - If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, the greatest prodigality ; since, as he elsewhere tells us, Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough always proves little enough.
Page 96 - ... for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost"; being overtaken and slain by the enemy all for want of a little care about a horseshoe nail!
Page 100 - The borrower is a slave to the lender, and the debtor to the creditor,' disdain the chain, preserve your freedom, and maintain your independency : be industrious and free ; be frugal and free. At present, perhaps, you may think yourselves in thriving circumstances, and that you can bear a little extravagance without injury ; but ' For age and want save while you may, No morning sun lasts a whole day/ as poor Richard says.
Page 163 - Doth Job fear God for nought? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side ? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Page 161 - s thousands o' my mind. [The first recruiting sergeant on record I conceive to have been that individual who is mentioned in the Book of Job as going to and fro in the earth , and walking up and down in it.
Page 100 - ... the blessing of heaven; and therefore ask that blessing humbly, and be not uncharitable to those that at present seem to want it, but comfort and help them. Remember Job suffered, and was afterwards prosperous. 'And now, to conclude, " experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other...
Page 96 - What maintains one Vice, would bring up two Children. "You may think perhaps, that a little Tea, or a little Punch now and then, Diet a little more costly, Clothes a little finer, and a little Entertainment now and then, can be no great Matter; but remember what Poor Richard says, Many a Little makes a Mickle; and farther, Beware of little Expenses; A small Leak will sink a great Ship; and again.
Page 90 - Pennsylvania, as it discouraged useless expense in foreign superfluities, some thought it had its share of influence in producing that growing plenty of money, which was observable for several years after its publication. I considered my newspaper, also, as another means of communicating instruction, and in that view frequently reprinted in it extracts from the Spectator, and other moral writers ; and sometimes published little pieces of my own, which had been first composed for reading in our Junto.
Page 98 - And again, Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but Poor Dick says, 'Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.