The Many-Sided FranklinCentury Company, 1899 - 516 páginas |
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... desire to be a sailor , and his father's fear that he would run away was a potent motive for letting the boy leave the trade of soap - making . As already mentioned , Benjamin did not get on well with the half - brother to whom he was ...
... desire to be a sailor , and his father's fear that he would run away was a potent motive for letting the boy leave the trade of soap - making . As already mentioned , Benjamin did not get on well with the half - brother to whom he was ...
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... desire to screen Mr. Williams on account of his being my nephew ; if he is guilty of what you charge him with , I care not how soon he is deservedly punished and the family purged of him ; for I take it 13 FAMILY RELATIONS.
... desire to screen Mr. Williams on account of his being my nephew ; if he is guilty of what you charge him with , I care not how soon he is deservedly punished and the family purged of him ; for I take it 13 FAMILY RELATIONS.
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... desire to revive the affectionate intercourse that formerly existed between us . It would be very agree- able to me ; indeed , nothing has hurt me so much , and filled me with such keen sensations , as to find myself deserted in my old ...
... desire to revive the affectionate intercourse that formerly existed between us . It would be very agree- able to me ; indeed , nothing has hurt me so much , and filled me with such keen sensations , as to find myself deserted in my old ...
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... desire to have the boy go with him . Once in Paris , the young fellow became Franklin's private secretary , and there are frequent references to him in that capacity in Frank- lin's letters , as , for instance : " My grandson , whom you ...
... desire to have the boy go with him . Once in Paris , the young fellow became Franklin's private secretary , and there are frequent references to him in that capacity in Frank- lin's letters , as , for instance : " My grandson , whom you ...
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... desire for dress , and when , in 1779 , Sarah asked him to send her some clothes from Paris , he wrote so reprovingly of her extravagance that she replied : " But how could my dear Papa give me so severe a repri- mand for wishing a ...
... desire for dress , and when , in 1779 , Sarah asked him to send her some clothes from Paris , he wrote so reprovingly of her extravagance that she replied : " But how could my dear Papa give me so severe a repri- mand for wishing a ...
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Página 109 - 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 coppers.
Página 113 - We have had some experience of it : several of our young people were formerly brought up at the colleges of the northern provinces ; they were instructed in all your sciences ; but when they came back to us, they were bad runners ; ignorant of every means of living in the woods; unable to bear either cold or hunger; knew neither how to build a cabin, take a deer, or kill an enemy ; spoke our language imperfectly ; were therefore neither fit for hunters, warriors, nor counsellors ; they were totally...
Página 393 - Don't give too much for the whistle ; and I saved my money.
Página 143 - AB, profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ, his Eternal Son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit, one God, blessed for evermore ; and do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration.
Página 90 - Tryon's manner of preparing some of his dishes, such as boiling potatoes or rice, making hasty pudding, and a few others, and then proposed to my brother, that if he would give me, weekly, half the money he paid for my board, I would board myself. He instantly agreed to it, and I presently found that I could save half what he paid me.
Página 220 - By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.
Página 217 - Tragedy, and contained an account of the drowning of Captain Worthilake, with his two daughters ; the other was a sailor's song, on the taking of Teach (or Blackbeard), the pirate.
Página 220 - I took some of the tales and turned them into verse ; and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. I also sometimes jumbled my collections of hints into confusion, and after some weeks endeavored to reduce them into the best order, before I began to form the full sentences and compleat the paper.
Página 170 - Here is my creed. I believe in one God, the creator of the universe. That He governs it by His providence. That He ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable service we render to Him is doing good to His other children. That the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this.
Página 221 - During my brother's confinement, which I resented a good deal, notwithstanding our private differences, I had the management of the paper; and I made bold to give our rulers some rubs in it, which my brother took very kindly, while others began to consider me in an unfavorable light, as a young genius that had a turn for libelling and satire.