Found 802 results for "Benjamin Franks"
by Benjamin Franklin
"It seems I am too much of an American," said Franklin sadly to an English friend.
by Aristotle
In this work, we propose to discuss the nature of the poetic art in general, and to treat of its different species in pa...
by Charles Dickens
THE first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the ea...
by Bible
Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.
by Jane Austen
IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledge, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
by Moses Maimonides
MOSES BEN MAIMON, commonly called Maimonides (1135-1204), is the leading Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages.
by Titus Livius
At the beginning of the following year the consuls and praetors balloted for their provinces.
by John Bunyan
AS I WALKED through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a den, and laid me down in that...
by William Shakespeare
1. When reading verse, note the appropriate phrasing and intonation.
by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet
Le premier lundi du mois d’avril 1625, le bourg de Meung, où naquit l’auteur du Roman de la Rose, semblait être da...
by United States
SECTION 1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist...
by William Shakespeare
1.1 King Lear, intending to divide his power and kingdom among his three daughters, demands public professions of their ...
by William Shakespeare
[Enter two Sentinels first, Francisco, who paces up and down at his post; then Bernardo, who approaches him.]
by Όμηρος
TELL ME, O MUSE, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.
by William Shakespeare
Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, with swords and bucklers.
by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville
I was born in the year 1632 in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreign...