Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...H. Colburn, 1818 |
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... soon after I procured " Xenophon's Memorable Things of Socrates " wherein there are many examples of the same method . I was charmed with it , adopted it , dropt my abrupt contradiction , and positive argumentation , and put on the ...
... soon after I procured " Xenophon's Memorable Things of Socrates " wherein there are many examples of the same method . I was charmed with it , adopted it , dropt my abrupt contradiction , and positive argumentation , and put on the ...
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... soon bring myself into scrapes ; and fur- ther , that my indiscreet disputations about religion , began to make me pointed at with horror by good people , as an infidel or atheist . I concluded , therefore , to remove to New York ; but ...
... soon bring myself into scrapes ; and fur- ther , that my indiscreet disputations about religion , began to make me pointed at with horror by good people , as an infidel or atheist . I concluded , therefore , to remove to New York ; but ...
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... soon almost as wet as he . In this manner we lay all night with very little rest : but the wind abating the next day , we made a shift to reach Amboy before night ; having been thirty hours on the water , without victuals , or any drink ...
... soon almost as wet as he . In this manner we lay all night with very little rest : but the wind abating the next day , we made a shift to reach Amboy before night ; having been thirty hours on the water , without victuals , or any drink ...
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... soon as we got out of the Creek , and arrived there about eight or nine o'clock , on the Sunday morning , and landed at Market street wharf . I have been the more particular in this description of my journey , and shall be so mind ...
... soon as we got out of the Creek , and arrived there about eight or nine o'clock , on the Sunday morning , and landed at Market street wharf . I have been the more particular in this description of my journey , and shall be so mind ...
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... soon , though he had just then nothing for me to do . And taking old Bradford , whom he had never seen before , to be one of the town's people that had a good - will for him , entered into a conversation on his present undertaking and ...
... soon , though he had just then nothing for me to do . And taking old Bradford , whom he had never seen before , to be one of the town's people that had a good - will for him , entered into a conversation on his present undertaking and ...
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419 ページ - The Body Of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, (Like the cover of an old book, Its contents torn out, And stript of its lettering and gilding,) Lies here, food for worms. But the work shall not be lost, For it will, as he believed, appear once more, In a new and more elegant edition, Revised and corrected By THE AUTHOR.
72 ページ - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
lxxiii ページ - Individuals entering into society must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest. The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and circumstance, as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult to draw with precision the line between those .rights which must be surrendered and those which may be reserved ; and on the present occasion this difficulty was increased by a difference among the several states as to their situation, extent, habits, and particular interests.
296 ページ - Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And, for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor. The foregoing Declaration was, by order of Congress, engrossed, and signed by the following members...
392 ページ - 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.
294 ページ - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
88 ページ - I happened, soon after, to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which, I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold ; as he proceeded, I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper.
lxviii ページ - The Congress may determine the time of choosing the electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes ; which day shall be the same throughout the United States.
lxxii ページ - That it is the opinion of this Convention, that as soon as the Conventions of nine states shall have ratified this Constitution, the United States in Congress assembled should fix a day on which electors should be appointed by the states which shall have ratified the same...
73 ページ - I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had imagined; but I had the satisfaction of seeing them diminish. To avoid the trouble of renewing now and then my little book, which, by scraping out the marks on the paper of old faults to make room for new ones in a new course, became full of holes...