Benjamin Franklin as a Man of LettersHoughton, Mifflin, 1896 - 293 páginas |
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... sermons taken down in this way are yet extant . The title is , " A Discourse on Forgiveness . In Three Sermons from Matt . vi . 15. By Nathaniel Vincent . Taken down in short - hand by one of his hearers . Boston , J. Franklin , 1722 ...
... sermons taken down in this way are yet extant . The title is , " A Discourse on Forgiveness . In Three Sermons from Matt . vi . 15. By Nathaniel Vincent . Taken down in short - hand by one of his hearers . Boston , J. Franklin , 1722 ...
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... , forty volumes of Bur- ton's " Historical Collections " were secured . The bent of his mind was now unmistakable . He stood in no danger of going to sea ; he did not need his uncle's sermons ; he would never be 8 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN .
... , forty volumes of Bur- ton's " Historical Collections " were secured . The bent of his mind was now unmistakable . He stood in no danger of going to sea ; he did not need his uncle's sermons ; he would never be 8 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN .
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... sermon was , with Mather , a morning's work . To preach seventy sermons in public , forty more in private , publish fourteen pamphlets , keep thirty vigils and sixty fasts , and still have time for persecuting witches , was nothing un ...
... sermon was , with Mather , a morning's work . To preach seventy sermons in public , forty more in private , publish fourteen pamphlets , keep thirty vigils and sixty fasts , and still have time for persecuting witches , was nothing un ...
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... sermon licensed to be printed , notices of a couple of arrivals , of a couple of deaths , of the appointment of an admiralty judge and deputy , and a call for business , is all it contains . 99 During fifteen years the " News Letter had ...
... sermon licensed to be printed , notices of a couple of arrivals , of a couple of deaths , of the appointment of an admiralty judge and deputy , and a call for business , is all it contains . 99 During fifteen years the " News Letter had ...
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... sermon after a long prayer , and he was , on the Sunday or the Thurs- day before execution , brought to the meeting- house loaded with chains , and placed in the front seats , to be reprobated and held up by name to the whole ...
... sermon after a long prayer , and he was , on the Sunday or the Thurs- day before execution , brought to the meeting- house loaded with chains , and placed in the front seats , to be reprobated and held up by name to the whole ...
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Página 88 - And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
Página 115 - I have been, if I may say it without vanity an eminent author of almanacks annually now a full quarter of a century, my brother authors in the same way, for what reason I know not, have ever been very sparing in their applauses, and no other author has taken the least notice of me, so that did...
Página 123 - 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.
Página 119 - But with our Industry, we must likewise be steady, settled and careful, and oversee our own Affairs with our own Eyes, and not trust too much to others; for, as Poor Richard says I never saw an oft-removed Tree, Nor yet an oft-removed Family, That throve so well as those that settled be.
Página 118 - So what signifies wishing and hoping for better Times. We may make these Times better, if we bestir ourselves. 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.
Página 117 - Ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness, three times as much by our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly; and from these Taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement. However let us hearken to good Advice, and something may be done for us; God helps them that help themselves, as Poor Richard says, in his Almanack of 1733.
Página 122 - A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees, as Poor Richard says. Perhaps they have had a small estate left them, which they knew not the getting of; they think, 'Tis day, and will never be night; that a little to be spent out of so much is not worth minding...
Página 117 - Part of their Time, to be employed in its Service. But Idleness taxes many of us much more...
Página 118 - What though you have found no treasure, nor has any rich relation left you a legacy, diligence is the mother of good luck, as Poor Richard says, and God gives all things to industry. Then plough deep, while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep, says Poor Dick.
Página 120 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail.