Young Benjamin Franklin: Or, The Right Road Through LifeHarper & Brothers, 1862 - 561 pages |
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Page vii
... object among authors for the young should be to write the child up to the man . As people talk broken En- glish to Frenchmen , and nurses prattle the baby dialect to babies , so it was once thought that boys ' books should be ...
... object among authors for the young should be to write the child up to the man . As people talk broken En- glish to Frenchmen , and nurses prattle the baby dialect to babies , so it was once thought that boys ' books should be ...
Page ix
... object of execration instead of sympathy -a bit of filthy literality out of the Royal New- gate Calendar , instead of a fine supernatural bit of fate , overshadowed with the same sense of doom as an old Greek play ) ; even so , in a ...
... object of execration instead of sympathy -a bit of filthy literality out of the Royal New- gate Calendar , instead of a fine supernatural bit of fate , overshadowed with the same sense of doom as an old Greek play ) ; even so , in a ...
Page xi
... object was to give the young reader a sense of the early teachings Benjamin Franklin when a boy might have received ( and doubtlessly did receive ) from his old Non - conformist uncle , and accordingly the latter has been made , if not ...
... object was to give the young reader a sense of the early teachings Benjamin Franklin when a boy might have received ( and doubtlessly did receive ) from his old Non - conformist uncle , and accordingly the latter has been made , if not ...
Page xiv
... object which the author of this book had in view was to wake not only his boy hero up to a sense of duty , but other boys also , and to let them know ( even without doing any great violence to the natural truth of things ) what prison ...
... object which the author of this book had in view was to wake not only his boy hero up to a sense of duty , but other boys also , and to let them know ( even without doing any great violence to the natural truth of things ) what prison ...
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... object . He knows absolute- ly nothing of the ways of the world , and has no more sense of the necessity or nobility of work , nor , indeed , any clearer notion of the great scheme of civilized society , than an Indian pa- poose . What ...
... object . He knows absolute- ly nothing of the ways of the world , and has no more sense of the necessity or nobility of work , nor , indeed , any clearer notion of the great scheme of civilized society , than an Indian pa- poose . What ...
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Young Benjamin Franklin; Or, the Right Road Through Life, a Boy's Book on a ... Henry Mayhew No preview available - 2012 |
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Page 430 - Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Page 306 - Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep" — the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care; The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great Nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast — Lady M. What do you mean? Macb. Still it cried "Sleep no more!
Page 289 - ... other teaches me, that every grain of sand may harbour within it the tribes and the families of a busy population. The one...
Page 275 - Windsor, thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me and make me my lady thy wife.
Page 275 - A made a finer end, and went away an it had been any christom child. A parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide. For after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers...
Page 291 - When an old bachelor marries a young wife, what is he to expect ? 'Tis now six months since Lady Teazle made me the happiest of men — and I have been the most miserable dog ever since ! We tiffed a little going to church, and fairly quarrelled before the bells had done ringing.
Page 306 - Sleep no more ! Macbeth does murder sleep,' the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast, — Lady M. What do you mean ? Macb. Still it cried ' Sleep no more ! ' to all the house : ' Glamis hath murder'd sleep, and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more ; Macbeth shall sleep no more.
Page 305 - One cried, God bless us ! and, Amen, the other ; As they had seen me, with these hangman's hands, Listening their fear. I could not say, amen, When they did say, God bless us.
Page 17 - At ten years old I was taken home to assist my father in his business, which was that of a tallow-chandler and soap-boiler...
Page 290 - ... was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other...