The British Prose Writers...: Dr. B. Franklin's essaysJ. Sharpe, 1821 |
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... liberty I design to take for the end above - mentioned . As yet I have but a few correspondents , though they begin now to increase . The following letter , left for me at the printer's , is one of the first I have received , which I ...
... liberty I design to take for the end above - mentioned . As yet I have but a few correspondents , though they begin now to increase . The following letter , left for me at the printer's , is one of the first I have received , which I ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... liberty , by confining you in gaol for life , or by selling you for a servant , if you should not be able to pay him . When you have got your bargain , you may , per- haps , think little of payment ; but , as poor Richard says ...
... liberty , by confining you in gaol for life , or by selling you for a servant , if you should not be able to pay him . When you have got your bargain , you may , per- haps , think little of payment ; but , as poor Richard says ...
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... liberty , his virtue , and perhaps his friends , to attain it , I have said to myself , " This man gives too much for his whistle . " When I saw another fond of popularity , con- stantly employing himself in political bustles , neg ...
... liberty , his virtue , and perhaps his friends , to attain it , I have said to myself , " This man gives too much for his whistle . " When I saw another fond of popularity , con- stantly employing himself in political bustles , neg ...
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... of your own , and being hungry , should kill one , an infamous death must be the consequence : " he would probably have pre- VOL . II . D ferred his liberty , and his common right of killing COMMERCIAL AND POLITICAL . 49.
... of your own , and being hungry , should kill one , an infamous death must be the consequence : " he would probably have pre- VOL . II . D ferred his liberty , and his common right of killing COMMERCIAL AND POLITICAL . 49.
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Стр. 75 - How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that The sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that There will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.
Стр. 83 - ... 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...
Стр. 87 - In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
Стр. 75 - Industry need not wish, as Poor Richard says, and he that lives upon Hope will die fasting. There are no Gains without Pains; then Help Hands, for I have no Lands, or if I have, they are smartly taxed.
Стр. 159 - I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth— that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings, that "except the Lord build the house they labor in vain that build it.
Стр. 77 - 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. 159 - I firmly believe this ; and I also believe that without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel. We shall be divided by our little, partial, local interests, our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by-word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and conquest.
Стр. 136 - the opinion of learned philosophers of our race, who lived and flourished long before my time, that this vast world, the Moulin Joly, could not itself subsist more than eighteen hours ; and I think there was some foundation for that opinion, since, by the apparent motion of the great luminary that gives life to all nature, and which in my time has evidently declined considerably...
Стр. 99 - 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. 161 - 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.