Ceremonies Attending the Unveiling of the Statue of Benjamin Franklin, June 14, 1899: Presented to the City of Philadelphia by Mr. Justus C. StrawbridgeAllen, Lane & Scott, 1899 - 58 sivua |
Muita painoksia - Näytä kaikki
Yleiset termit ja lausekkeet
achievements Adams ADDRESS American Philosophical Society arduous ASHBRIDGE Assembly BECK Benjamin Franklin career century CHARLES EMORY SMITH Chestnut Street City Hall city of Boston city of Philadelphia civic Class of 99 COLEMAN SELLERS Colonial America colonies Committee Congress crowned delphia donor England English erected Eugene Ellicott fame France Franklin Institute Franklin lived genius greatest citizen heart honor independence James JOSIAH QUINCY Justus kings labors learned Library Company Lord mankind Mayor of Boston memory of Franklin ment mighty mind monument mould noble statue onies Opera House Paris patriotism peace Penn Pennsylvania Hospital phia Phila Philadel plaza Poor Richard Post Office Postmaster Postmaster-General preeminently President printing press public services race Republic Robert Morris seemed Stamp Act statesman statue of Benjamin Strawbridge sylvania tion to-day treaty of alliance United University of Pennsyl University of Pennsylvania unveiled vania Voltaire Washington wealth wrote zens
Suositut otteet
Sivu 37 - 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.
Sivu 29 - Franklin's reputation was more universal than that of Leibnitz or Newton, Frederick or Voltaire, and his character more beloved and esteemed than any or all of them. His name was familiar to government and people, to kings, courtiers, nobility, clergy, and philosophers, as well as plebeians, to such a degree that there was scarcely a peasant or a citizen, a valet de chambre, coachman or footman, a lady's chambermaid or a scullion in a kitchen who was not familiar with it, and who did not consider...
Sivu 30 - If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired for talents, if to be esteemed for patriotism, if to be beloved for philanthropy, can gratify the human mind, you must have the pleasing consolation to know, that you have not lived in vain. And I flatter myself that it will not be ranked among the least grateful occurrences of your life to be assured, that, so long as I retain my memory, you will be recollected with respect, veneration, and affection by your sincere friend,
Sivu 28 - Of all the celebrated persons whom in my life I have chanced to see, Dr. Franklin, both from his appearance and his conversation, seemed to me the most remarkable. His venerable, patriarchal appearance, the simplicity of his manner and language, and the novelty of his observations, at least the novelty of them at that time to me, impressed me with an opinion of him as...
Sivu 35 - I am old and good for nothing, but as the storekeepers say of their remnants of cloth, 'I am but a fag end, and you may have me for what you please.
Sivu 37 - I had not firmness enough to resist the unanimous desire of my country folks ; and I find myself harnessed again in their service for another year. They engrossed the prime of my life. They have eaten my flesh, and seem resolved now to pick my bones.
Sivu 38 - Whilst the last. members were signing, Doctor Franklin, looking towards the President's chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed to a few members near him that painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art a rising from a setting sun. I have, said he, often and often, in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting...
Sivu 36 - But the little success that has attended your late applications for money mortified me exceedingly; and the storm of bills, which I found coming upon us both, has terrified and vexed me to such a degree, that I have been deprived of sleep, and so much indisposed by continual anxiety, as to be rendered almost incapable of writing.
Sivu 28 - ONE of the most remarkable men certainly of our times as a politician, or of any age as a philosopher, was Franklin ; who also stands alone in combining together these two characters, the greatest that man can sustain, and in this, that having borne the first part in enlarging science by one of the greatest discoveries ever made, he bore the second part in founding one of the greatest empires in the world.
Sivu 45 - I have some little property in America. I will freely spend nineteen shillings in the pound to defend my right of giving or refusing the other shilling. And, after all, if I cannot defend that right, I can retire cheerfully with my family into the boundless woods of America, which are sure to afford freedom and subsistence to any man who can bait a hook or pull a trigger.