Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...H. Colburn, 1818 |
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... crown I have since earned ; and from the gratitude I felt towards House , has made me often more ready , than perhaps I otherwise should have been to assist young beginners . There are croakers in every country always boding its ruin ...
... crown I have since earned ; and from the gratitude I felt towards House , has made me often more ready , than perhaps I otherwise should have been to assist young beginners . There are croakers in every country always boding its ruin ...
Halaman 50
... crown of Great Britain , by the governor's depending immediately on them , and his own good conduct , for an ample support ; because all acts and laws , which he might be induced to pass , must nevertheless be constantly sent home for ...
... crown of Great Britain , by the governor's depending immediately on them , and his own good conduct , for an ample support ; because all acts and laws , which he might be induced to pass , must nevertheless be constantly sent home for ...
Halaman 92
... crown , to grant aids for military purposes . They were unwilling to offend government on the one hand , by a direct refusal ; and their friends ( the body of the Quakers ) on the other , by a compliance contrary to their principles ...
... crown , to grant aids for military purposes . They were unwilling to offend government on the one hand , by a direct refusal ; and their friends ( the body of the Quakers ) on the other , by a compliance contrary to their principles ...
Halaman 104
... crown as the Post - Office of Ireland . Since that imprudent transaction , they have received from it — Not one farthing ! The business of the Post Office occasioned my taking a journey this year to New England , where the College of ...
... crown as the Post - Office of Ireland . Since that imprudent transaction , they have received from it — Not one farthing ! The business of the Post Office occasioned my taking a journey this year to New England , where the College of ...
Halaman 105
... crown ; and a grand council to be chosen by the representatives of the people of the several colonies met in their respective assemblies . The debates upon it in congress went on daily hand in hand with the Indian business . Many ...
... crown ; and a grand council to be chosen by the representatives of the people of the several colonies met in their respective assemblies . The debates upon it in congress went on daily hand in hand with the Indian business . Many ...
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Halaman 419 - 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.
Halaman 72 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Halaman lxxiii - Individuals entering into society must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest. The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and circumstance, as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult to draw with precision the line between those .rights which must be surrendered and those which may be reserved ; and on the present occasion this difficulty was increased by a difference among the several states as to their situation, extent, habits, and particular interests.
Halaman 296 - Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And, for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor. The foregoing Declaration was, by order of Congress, engrossed, and signed by the following members...
Halaman 392 - 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.
Halaman 294 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Halaman 88 - 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 copper.
Halaman lxviii - The Congress may determine the time of choosing the electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes ; which day shall be the same throughout the United States.
Halaman lxxii - That it is the opinion of this Convention, that as soon as the Conventions of nine states shall have ratified this Constitution, the United States in Congress assembled should fix a day on which electors should be appointed by the states which shall have ratified the same...
Halaman 73 - I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had imagined; but I had the satisfaction of seeing them diminish. To avoid the trouble of renewing now and then my little book, which, by scraping out the marks on the paper of old faults to make room for new ones in a new course, became full of holes...