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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 encourage . ment
of his friends , who assured him that I should one day certainly become a man of
...
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 encourage . ment
of his friends , who assured him that I should one day certainly become a man of
...
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Be stu . dious in your profession , and you will be learned . Be industrious and
frugal , and you will be rich . Be sober and temperate , and you will be healthy .
Be in general virtuous , and you will be happy . At least , you will , by such
conduct ...
Be stu . dious in your profession , and you will be learned . Be industrious and
frugal , and you will be rich . Be sober and temperate , and you will be healthy .
Be in general virtuous , and you will be happy . At least , you will , by such
conduct ...
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It was , ' says he , " the opinion of learned philosophers of our ract , who lived and
flourished long before my time , that this vast world the Moulin Joly could not itself
consist more than eighteen lours : and I think there was some foundation for ...
It was , ' says he , " the opinion of learned philosophers of our ract , who lived and
flourished long before my time , that this vast world the Moulin Joly could not itself
consist more than eighteen lours : and I think there was some foundation for ...
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Yet so it happens , that when I speak of this discovery to others , I can easily
perceive by their countenances , though they for bear expressing it in words , that
they do not quite believe me . One , indeed , who is a learned natural philosopher
...
Yet so it happens , that when I speak of this discovery to others , I can easily
perceive by their countenances , though they for bear expressing it in words , that
they do not quite believe me . One , indeed , who is a learned natural philosopher
...
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... disturbing its even , regular appearance The effect of this change is so
considerable , that a learned man in France , who used to read our books ,
though not perfectly acquainted with our language , in . conversation with me on
the subject of ...
... disturbing its even , regular appearance The effect of this change is so
considerable , that a learned man in France , who used to read our books ,
though not perfectly acquainted with our language , in . conversation with me on
the subject of ...
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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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