Sublime

I included under thirteen names of virtues all that at that time occurred to me as necessary or desirable, and annexed to each a short precept, which fully expressed the extent I gave to its meaning. These names of virtues, with their precepts, were: 1. Temperance. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. Silence. Speak not but what may bene

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Arrivé sans le sou à Philadelphie à l’âge de dix-sept ans, il a fait fortune dans l’imprimerie ; il a su divertir le bon peuple de Pennsylvanie par ses petits essais cocasses et édifiants, il a su faire les délices, à Versailles, de la cour de Louis XVI ; il a démontré la nature électrique de la foudre et inventé le paratonnerre ; il a contribué à

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And now I set on foot my first project of a public nature,—that for a subscription library. [n] I drew up the proposals, got them put into form by our great scrivener, Brockden, and, by the help of my friends in the Junto, procured fifty subscribers of forty shillings each to begin with, and ten shillings a year for fifty years, the term our compan

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