The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author, Volume 2C. Tappan, 1844 - United States |
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... PRINCIPLES . I BELIEVE there is one supreme , most perfect Being , author and father of the gods themselves . For I believe that man is not the most perfect being but one , but rather that there are many degrees of beings superior to ...
... PRINCIPLES . I BELIEVE there is one supreme , most perfect Being , author and father of the gods themselves . For I believe that man is not the most perfect being but one , but rather that there are many degrees of beings superior to ...
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... principle , which inclines them to DEVOTION , or the worship of some unseen power ; And since men are endued with reason superior to all other animals , that we are in our world acquainted with ; Therefore I think it seems required of ...
... principle , which inclines them to DEVOTION , or the worship of some unseen power ; And since men are endued with reason superior to all other animals , that we are in our world acquainted with ; Therefore I think it seems required of ...
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... a bad intention ? " Is it inconsistent with the principles of liberty in a free government , to punish a man as a libeller , when he speaks the truth ? " 11. Do you think of any thing at present , 10 FRANKLIN'S WRITINGS .
... a bad intention ? " Is it inconsistent with the principles of liberty in a free government , to punish a man as a libeller , when he speaks the truth ? " 11. Do you think of any thing at present , 10 FRANKLIN'S WRITINGS .
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... principles of virtue , and deprecate vice of every kind . But , as I know the mob hate instruction , and the generality would never read beyond the first line of my lectures , if they were actually filled with nothing but wholesome ...
... principles of virtue , and deprecate vice of every kind . But , as I know the mob hate instruction , and the generality would never read beyond the first line of my lectures , if they were actually filled with nothing but wholesome ...
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... principles , and for the same reason , as they do assassination , & c .; and all this is inferred and con- cluded from a character I have wrote in my Num- ber III . In order to examine the justice and truth of this heavy charge , let us ...
... principles , and for the same reason , as they do assassination , & c .; and all this is inferred and con- cluded from a character I have wrote in my Num- ber III . In order to examine the justice and truth of this heavy charge , let us ...
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Page 438 - 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, or counsellors; they were totally good for nothing.
Page 93 - If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, the greatest prodigality ; since, as he elsewhere tells us, Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough always proves little enough.
Page 96 - ... for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and 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 horseshoe nail!
Page 100 - The borrower is a slave to the lender, and the debtor to the creditor,' disdain the chain, preserve your freedom, and maintain your independency : be industrious and free ; be frugal and free. At present, perhaps, you may think yourselves in thriving circumstances, and that you can bear a little extravagance without injury ; but ' For age and want save while you may, No morning sun lasts a whole day/ as poor Richard says.
Page 163 - Doth Job fear God for nought? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side ? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Page 161 - s thousands o' my mind. [The first recruiting sergeant on record I conceive to have been that individual who is mentioned in the Book of Job as going to and fro in the earth , and walking up and down in it.
Page 100 - ... 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...
Page 96 - 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.
Page 90 - Pennsylvania, as it discouraged useless expense in foreign superfluities, some thought it had its share of influence in producing that growing plenty of money, which was observable for several years after its publication. I considered my newspaper, also, as another means of communicating instruction, and in that view frequently reprinted in it extracts from the Spectator, and other moral writers ; and sometimes published little pieces of my own, which had been first composed for reading in our Junto.
Page 98 - 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.