The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including the Private as Well as the Official and Scientific Correspondence Together with the Unmutilated and Correct Version of the Autobiography, Tập 8

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G.P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1904
 

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Trang 174 - The rapid progress true science now makes, occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born so soon. It is impossible to imagine the height to which may be carried, in a thousand years, the power of man over matter.
Trang 320 - Oh! oh! — for Heaven's sake leave me! and I promise faithfully never more to play at chess, but to take exercise daily, and live temperately. GOUT. I know you too well. You promise fair; but, after a few months of good health, you will return to your old habits; your fine promises will be forgotten like the forms of last year's clouds.
Trang 330 - SIR, I have received the letter, which you did me the honor to write to me on the...
Trang 200 - I should not give you the pain of reading it, if your demand did not make it necessary. I think you then so imprudent, so litigious, and quarrelsome a man, even with your best friends, that peace and good order, and consequently the quiet and regular subordination so necessary to success, are, where you preside, impossible. These are within my observation and apprehension. Your military operations I leave to more capable judges. If, therefore, I had twenty ships of war in my disposition, I should...
Trang 283 - It is my intention, while I stay here, to procure what advantages I can for our country, by endeavoring to please this Court...
Trang 128 - Keep thy Shop, and thy Shop will keep thee; and again, If you would have your Business done, go; if not, send. And again, He that by the Plough would thrive, . . : Himself must either hold or drive.
Trang 176 - I saw what I took to be a pleasant green meadow, in the middle of which was a large shady tree, where, it struck my fancy, I could sit and read (having a book in my pocket) and pass the time agreeably till the tide turned.
Trang 281 - I mention this with reluctance, though perhaps it would have been my duty to acquaint you with such a circumstance, even were it not required of me by the minister himself. He has sent me copies of the correspondence, desiring I would communicate them to Congress; and I send them herewith.1 Mr.
Trang 170 - If the Congress have therefore entrusted to others rather than to me, the Negotiations for Peace, when such shall be set on foot, as has been reported; it is perhaps because they may have heard of a very singular Opinion of mine, that there hardly ever existed such a thing as a bad Peace, or a good War and that I might therefore easily be induc'd to make improper Concessions.
Trang 318 - Certainly; for, having been seated all the while, you cannot object the fatigue of the day, and cannot want therefore the relief of a carriage. FRANKLIN. What then would you have me do with my carriage ? GOUT. Burn it if you choose; you would at least get heat out of it once in this way; or, if you dislike that proposal...

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