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My father , Josias , married early in life . He went with his wife and three children
to New . England , about the year 1682 . Conventicles being at that time
prohibited by law , and frequently dis . turbed , some considerable persons of his
...
My father , Josias , married early in life . He went with his wife and three children
to New . England , about the year 1682 . Conventicles being at that time
prohibited by law , and frequently dis . turbed , some considerable persons of his
...
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My father destined me for the church ; and already re . garded me as the chaplain
of the family . The promptitude with which from my infancy I had learned to read ,
for I do not remember to have been ever without this acquirement , and the ...
My father destined me for the church ; and already re . garded me as the chaplain
of the family . The promptitude with which from my infancy I had learned to read ,
for I do not remember to have been ever without this acquirement , and the ...
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I thus continued employed in my father ' s trade for the space of two years ; that is
to say , till I arrived at twelve years of age . About this time my brother John , who
had served his apprena ticeship in London , having quitted my father , and ...
I thus continued employed in my father ' s trade for the space of two years ; that is
to say , till I arrived at twelve years of age . About this time my brother John , who
had served his apprena ticeship in London , having quitted my father , and ...
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My father at length decided that I should be a cutler , and I was placed for some
days upon trial with my cousin Samuel , son of my uncle Benjamin , who , had
learned this trade in London , and had established himself at Boston . But the ...
My father at length decided that I should be a cutler , and I was placed for some
days upon trial with my cousin Samuel , son of my uncle Benjamin , who , had
learned this trade in London , and had established himself at Boston . But the ...
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Upon which he informed me that his father had a very high opinion of me , and
from a conversation that had passed between them , he was sure that he would
advance whatever might be necessary to establish us , if I was willing to enter
into ...
Upon which he informed me that his father had a very high opinion of me , and
from a conversation that had passed between them , he was sure that he would
advance whatever might be necessary to establish us , if I was willing to enter
into ...
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Page 256 - ... their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? 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...
Page 175 - Remember that money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned is six; turned again it is seven and threepence ; and so on till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. He that kills a breeding sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced,...
Page 247 - As every freeman, to preserve his independence (if without a sufficient estate), ought to have some profession, calling, trade or farm, whereby he may honestly subsist, there can be no necessity for nor use in establishing offices of profit, the usual effects of which are dependence and servility, unbecoming freemen, in the possessors...
Page 226 - If war should arise between the two contracting parties, the merchants of either country, then residing in the other, shall be allowed to remain nine months, to collect their debts and settle their affairs, and may depart freely carrying off all their effects, without molestation or hindrance...
Page 255 - For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.
Page 211 - Almost all the parts of our bodies- require some expense. The feet demand shoes ; the legs stockings ; the rest of the body clothing ; and the belly a good deal of victuals. Our eyes, though exceedingly useful, ask, when reasonable, only the cheap assistance of spectacles, which could not much impair our finances. But the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should •want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture.
Page 234 - And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.
Page 256 - 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 227 - Mankind, shall be allowed to continue their respective employments, and shall not be molested in their persons, nor shall their Houses or Goods be burnt, or otherwise destroyed, nor their Fields wasted, by the armed force...
Page 257 - On the whole, sir, I cannot help expressing a wish that every member of the Convention who may still have objections to it, would with me, on this occasion, doubt a little of his own infallibility, and to make manifest our unanimity, put his name to this instrument.
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| Title | Works of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Memoirs of His Early Life |
| Author | Benjamin Franklin |
| Publisher | Henry W. Gibbs. James St. John ... printer., 1810 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 4 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 274 pages |
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