The British Prose Writers...: Dr. B. Franklin's essaysJ. Sharpe, 1821 |
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... farther from , Sir , Your most humble servant , THE BUSY - BODY . THE BUSY - BODY . - No . II . From Tuesday , February 4 , to Tuesday , February 11 , 1728-9 . ON VULGAR DERISION . All fools have still an itching to deride , And fain ...
... farther from , Sir , Your most humble servant , THE BUSY - BODY . THE BUSY - BODY . - No . II . From Tuesday , February 4 , to Tuesday , February 11 , 1728-9 . ON VULGAR DERISION . All fools have still an itching to deride , And fain ...
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... farther to say , how I may be useful to you , and as a reason for my not making myself more known in the world . By virtue of this great gift of nature , second - sightedness , I do con- tinually see numbers of men , women , and ...
... farther to say , how I may be useful to you , and as a reason for my not making myself more known in the world . By virtue of this great gift of nature , second - sightedness , I do con- tinually see numbers of men , women , and ...
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... farther order . Noli me tangere . I had resolved , when I first commenced this de- sign , on no account to enter into a public dispute with any man ; for I judged it would be equally un- pleasant to me and my readers , to see this paper ...
... farther order . Noli me tangere . I had resolved , when I first commenced this de- sign , on no account to enter into a public dispute with any man ; for I judged it would be equally un- pleasant to me and my readers , to see this paper ...
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... farther at present : you have said a great deal for nature , providence , and reason ; happy are they who can follow such divine guides . Phil . Horatio , good night ; I wish you wise in your pleasures . Hor . I wish , Philocles , I ...
... farther at present : you have said a great deal for nature , providence , and reason ; happy are they who can follow such divine guides . Phil . Horatio , good night ; I wish you wise in your pleasures . Hor . I wish , Philocles , I ...
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... farther into the cause of this difference , and would know why the moral pleasures are greater than the sensual , perhaps the reason is the same as in all other creatures ; that their happiness or chief good consists in acting up to ...
... farther into the cause of this difference , and would know why the moral pleasures are greater than the sensual , perhaps the reason is the same as in all other creatures ; that their happiness or chief good consists in acting up to ...
Términos y frases comunes
act of parliament advantage America better Britain Busy-Body clothes colonies continue dæmons dear debts earth employed encourage endeavour England equal Europe expense farther favour February 11 fluid Franklin friends frugality give Glaucon Gout happiness honour Horatio hundred increase industry inhabitants judges kind labour land less liberty live luxury Madeira wine manner manufactures marriages means ment merchants mind Mussulmen nation natural necessary neighbours never obliged observed occasion opinion parliament Pennsylvania Gazette perhaps persons Phil Philocles pleasure poor Richard says pounds present produce profit Province of Pennsylvania provinces Prussia quantity racters raised reason rich ruin self-denial shillings ships slaves Socrates Spain specific gravity stamp act subjects subsistence suffered supposed taxes thee thereby things thou thought tion trade virtue whole wise
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Página 75 - How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that The sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that There will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.
Página 83 - ... 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...
Página 87 - In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
Página 75 - Industry need not wish, as Poor Richard says, and he that lives upon Hope will die fasting. There are no Gains without Pains; then Help Hands, for I have no Lands, or if I have, they are smartly taxed.
Página 159 - I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth— that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings, that "except the Lord build the house they labor in vain that build it.
Página 77 - Methinks I hear some of you say, 'Must a man afford himself no leisure?' I will tell thee, my friend, what Poor Richard says, Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure; and since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
Página 159 - I firmly believe this ; and I also believe that without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel. We shall be divided by our little, partial, local interests, our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by-word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and conquest.
Página 136 - the opinion of learned philosophers of our race, who lived and flourished long before my time, that this vast world, the Moulin Joly, could not itself subsist more than eighteen hours ; and I think there was some foundation for that opinion, since, by the apparent motion of the great luminary that gives life to all nature, and which in my time has evidently declined considerably...
Página 99 - Good," which, I think, was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor that several leaves of it were torn out, but the remainder gave me such a turn of thinking as to have an influence on my conduct through life; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good than on any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to that book.
Página 161 - I doubt, too, whether any other convention we can obtain, may be able to make a better 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.