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...m James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publ... ...ious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ing as they were vis- iting our land. It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk. The contrary habit, of talking whilst the... ...st the Europeans talk. The contrary habit, of talking whilst the Europeans listen, we have not yet acquired; and in him who first makes the adven- tur... ... docu- ments that will make a more delectable and curious entertainment to listen to than mine. Yet I doubt whether he will necessarily, by his contro... ...e made irrefutably clear to those who have ever had the experience is [31] C. Hilty: Gluck, dritter Theil, 1900, p. 18. 82 The V arieties of Religiou... ... us- ing different conceptions and assuming different atti- tudes, just as mathematicians handle the same numeri- cal and spatial facts by geometry, b... ...t to rely on my individual rea- [95] H. Fletcher: Menticulture, or the A-B-C of True Living, New York and Chicago, 1899, pp. 26, 36, abridged. 184 Th...

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...ion: Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the ?New England Courant.? To this journal he became a ...

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...klin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. An An An An Any per y per y per y per y person using this do... ...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eli... ...carce ever heard or saw the introductory words, “Without vanity I may say,” &c., but some vain thing immediately followed. Most people dislike vanity ... ...nd brought to us regularly by a woman in the neighborhood, who had from me a list of forty dishes to be prepar’d for us at different times, in all whi... ...tobiography of Benjamin Franklin 56 pleasing companion; as, like most great mathematicians I have met with, he expected universal precision in everyt... ... anxiety and too much injured by pain. In the hope, therefore, that you will listen to the prayer addressed to you in this letter, I beg to subscribe ... ... * I. * S. J. M. C. T. C. H. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 79 strengthen’d... ... likely to make a poor man’s for tune as those of probity and integrity. My list of virtues contain’d at first but twelve; but a Quaker friend having...