The Life of Benjamin Franklin: With Many Choice Anecdotes and Admirable Sayings of this Great Man, Never Before Published by Any of His BiographersUriah Hunt's Sons, 1873 - Всего страниц: 239 |
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... night had spread her dark curtains around them , they fell to work with the activity of young beavers , and by midnight had completed their wharf . The next morning the masons came to work , but , behold ! not a stone was to be found ...
... night had spread her dark curtains around them , they fell to work with the activity of young beavers , and by midnight had completed their wharf . The next morning the masons came to work , but , behold ! not a stone was to be found ...
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... nights for the higher pleasure of holding an argument with him . This was a great trial to his sisters , who would often intreat their mo- ther to make Ben hold his tongue , that their father might take down his fiddle , and play and ...
... nights for the higher pleasure of holding an argument with him . This was a great trial to his sisters , who would often intreat their mo- ther to make Ben hold his tongue , that their father might take down his fiddle , and play and ...
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... night to her husband , as he lay sleepless and sighing on his son's account , " why do we make ourselves so unhappy about Ben for fear he should go to sea ! let him but go to school , and I'll engage we hear no more about his running to ...
... night to her husband , as he lay sleepless and sighing on his son's account , " why do we make ourselves so unhappy about Ben for fear he should go to sea ! let him but go to school , and I'll engage we hear no more about his running to ...
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... night . After this he fell upon his father's library . This being made up principally of old puritanical divinity , would to most boys have ap- peared like the pillars of Hercules to travellers of old — a bound not to be passed . But so ...
... night . After this he fell upon his father's library . This being made up principally of old puritanical divinity , would to most boys have ap- peared like the pillars of Hercules to travellers of old — a bound not to be passed . But so ...
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... night , Adams being absent , and only himself and Collins together in the old school - house , Ben observed that ne thought it a great pity that the young ladies were not more attended to , as to the improvement of their minds by ...
... night , Adams being absent , and only himself and Collins together in the old school - house , Ben observed that ne thought it a great pity that the young ladies were not more attended to , as to the improvement of their minds by ...
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Стр. 137 - I stopped my horse lately where a great number of people were collected at an auction of merchants' goods. The hour of the sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times; and one of the company called to a plain, clean old man, with white locks; — "Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the times? Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country? How shall we ever be able to pay them? What would you advise us to?" Father Abraham stood up and replied, "If you would have...
Стр. 141 - If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing...
Стр. 141 - ... perhaps, has induced some of us to attend it, because we cannot spare the ready money, and hope now to be fine without it. But ah! think what you do when you run in debt; you give to another power over your liberty. If you cannot pay at the time, you will be ashamed to see your creditor, you will be in fear when you speak to him, you will make poor, pitiful, sneaking excuses, and, by degrees, come to lose your veracity, and sink into base, downright lying: for, 'the second vice is lying, the...
Стр. 141 - 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.
Стр. 140 - You call them goods; but if you do not take care they will prove evils to some of you. You expect they will be sold cheap, and perhaps they may for less than they cost; but if you have no occasion for them they must be dear to you.
Стр. 138 - What though you have found no treasure, nor has any rich relation left you a legacy, Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
Стр. 140 - 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. Who Dainties love, shall Beggars prove; and moreover, Fools make Feasts, and wise Men eat them.
Стр. 147 - Good," which, I think, was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor that several leaves of it were torn out, but the remainder gave me such a turn of thinking as to have an influence on my conduct through life; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good than on any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to that book.
Стр. 138 - Methinks, I hear some of you say, "Must a man afford himself no leisure?" I will tell thee, my friend! what Poor RICHARD says. Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure! and Since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour!
Стр. 144 - I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for one. 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...