The British Prose Writers...: Dr. B. Franklin's essaysJ. Sharpe, 1821 |
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... manufactures . " For my part , " says he , " I esteem the banks of New- foundland to be a more valuable possession than the mountains of Potosi ; and when I have been there on the fishing account , have looked upon every cod pulled up ...
... manufactures . " For my part , " says he , " I esteem the banks of New- foundland to be a more valuable possession than the mountains of Potosi ; and when I have been there on the fishing account , have looked upon every cod pulled up ...
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... manufacture , and their richest robes were the skins of the most formidable mon- sters : they carried on trade without books , and correspondence without posts : their merchants kept no accounts , their shopkeepers no cash - books ...
... manufacture , and their richest robes were the skins of the most formidable mon- sters : they carried on trade without books , and correspondence without posts : their merchants kept no accounts , their shopkeepers no cash - books ...
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... manufactures , & c . is too remote to require the attention of Great Britain . 10. But , in proportion to the increase of the co- lonies , a vast demand is growing for British manu- factures ; a glorious market , wholly in the power ...
... manufactures , & c . is too remote to require the attention of Great Britain . 10. But , in proportion to the increase of the co- lonies , a vast demand is growing for British manu- factures ; a glorious market , wholly in the power ...
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... manufactures with Britain . The labour of slaves can never be so cheap here as the labour of working men is in Britain . Any one may compute it . Interest of money is in the colonies from six to ten per cent . Slaves , one with another ...
... manufactures with Britain . The labour of slaves can never be so cheap here as the labour of working men is in Britain . Any one may compute it . Interest of money is in the colonies from six to ten per cent . Slaves , one with another ...
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... Manufactures , exported , draw sub- sistence from foreign countries for numbers , who are thereby enabled to marry and raise families . If the nation be deprived of any branch of trade , and no new employment is found for the people ...
... Manufactures , exported , draw sub- sistence from foreign countries for numbers , who are thereby enabled to marry and raise families . If the nation be deprived of any branch of trade , and no new employment is found for the people ...
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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.