Benjamin Franklin, PrinterDoubleday, Page, for the Associated advertising clubs of the world, 1917 - 244 pagina's |
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... added , LETTERS and PAPERS O N PHILOSOPHICAL SUBJECTS . The Whole corrected , methodized , improved , and now.firft col- lected into one Volume , AND . Illuftrated with COPPER PLATES . LONDON : Printed for DAVID HENRY ; and fold by ...
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Pagina 235 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Pagina 51 - I crossed these columns with thirteen red lines, marking the beginning of each line with the first letter of one of the virtues; on which line, and in its proper column, I might mark by a little black spot, every fault I found upon examination to have been committed respecting that virtue, upon that day I determined to give a week's strict attention to each of the virtues successively.
Pagina 235 - The Body Of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, (Like the cover of an old book, Its contents torn out, And stript of its lettering and gilding,) Lies here, food for worms. But the work shall not be lost, For it will, as he believed, appear once more, In a new and more elegant edition, Revised and corrected By THE AUTHOR.
Pagina 101 - Thus, my fellowcitizens, if an impudent writer attacks your reputation, dearer to you perhaps than your life, and puts his name to the charge, you may go to him as openly and break his head. If he conceals himself...
Pagina 40 - He wished to please everybody; and, having little to give, he gave expectations. He was otherwise an ingenious, sensible man, a pretty good writer, and a good governor for the people, though not for his constituents, the proprietaries, whose instructions he sometimes disregarded. Several of our best laws were of his planning and passed during his administration.
Pagina 172 - ... good deal of money. The possession of this booty at first gave us pleasure ; but we were struck with horror to find among the packages eight large ones, containing SCALPS of our unhappy...
Pagina 205 - ... either passed into other hands, or the person to whom they were bequeathed received a remuneration for suppressing them.
Pagina 153 - Readers in the Nation; for the Strokes of your Letters, being too thin and narrow, hurt the Eye, and he could never read a Line of them without Pain. 'I thought,' said I, 'you were going to complain of the Gloss of the Paper, some object to.
Pagina 56 - O powerful Goodness! bountiful Father! merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolutions to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favors to me.
Pagina 8 - It was a work of so much consequence as to arrest the attention of the nobility and gentry of England, as well as that of King Charles, to whom it was dedicated. The press of Harvard college, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was for a time, as celebrated as the presses of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, in England.
Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Benjamin Franklin, Printer |
| Auteur | John Clyde Oswald |
| Uitgever | Doubleday, Page, for the Associated advertising clubs of the world, 1917 |
| Lengte | 244 pagina's |
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