The Life of Benjamin Franklin
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The world is too full of compliments already. They are the rank growth of every soil, and choke the good plants of benevolence and beneficence ; nor do I pretend to be the first in this comparison of words and actions to plants. You may remember an antient poet, whose works we have all studied and copied at school long ago — ' A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds' " In the conclusion of this playful and yet earnest and affectionate letter, he does not forget his aged ...half-sister, Mrs. Dowse, but requests that Mrs. Mecom would read to her the account of their connections in England, which would be sent to her by his wife for their gratification.
In making these inquiries concerning his kindred, and tracing these various currents of consanguinity, however obscurely they might be flowing along the humbler or more retired ways of life, Franklin was gratifying one of the strongest propensities of his kindly nature ; one which pervaded his whole being; which not only consti- tuted an essential ingredient of his own happiness, but rendered him peculiarly dear to his familiar friends; which, in its various manifestations and wider influences as a social principle, led him to regard nothing human as alien to his heart, and without which, human life can be little better than a dreary and cheerless waste ; which spread over his manners and general deportment so at- tractive a charm, that, wherever he mingled in society, or engaged in correspondence and personal intercourse of any kind, even with the most eminent, whether in birth and station, or in the pursuits of science, added to the respect and deference he commanded for his abilities and acquirements as a philosopher and a sage, the warmer sentiment of esteem and friendship for him as a companion and a man.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The world is too full of compliments already. They are the rank growth of every soil, and choke the good plants of benevolence and beneficence ; nor do I pretend to be the first in this comparison of words and actions to plants. You may remember an antient poet, whose works we have all studied and copied at school long ago — ' A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds' " In the conclusion of this playful and yet earnest and affectionate letter, he does not forget his aged ...half-sister, Mrs. Dowse, but requests that Mrs. Mecom would read to her the account of their connections in England, which would be sent to her by his wife for their gratification.
In making these inquiries concerning his kindred, and tracing these various currents of consanguinity, however obscurely they might be flowing along the humbler or more retired ways of life, Franklin was gratifying one of the strongest propensities of his kindly nature ; one which pervaded his whole being; which not only consti- tuted an essential ingredient of his own happiness, but rendered him peculiarly dear to his familiar friends; which, in its various manifestations and wider influences as a social principle, led him to regard nothing human as alien to his heart, and without which, human life can be little better than a dreary and cheerless waste ; which spread over his manners and general deportment so at- tractive a charm, that, wherever he mingled in society, or engaged in correspondence and personal intercourse of any kind, even with the most eminent, whether in birth and station, or in the pursuits of science, added to the respect and deference he commanded for his abilities and acquirements as a philosopher and a sage, the warmer sentiment of esteem and friendship for him as a companion and a man.
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