15. 華盛頓對富蘭克林的讚美詞
“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.”
對您仁慈的敬意,
對您才華的欽佩,
對您愛國的尊敬,
對您慈善的敬愛,
能使人心感滿足,
您將欣慰不留白。
16. 傑弗遜與杜爾哥的讚美詞
•是十八世紀全美與全民之桂冠,世界因有B.F. 使這個時
代更有光彩(“the greatest man and ornament of
the age and country in which he lived”)。
•法國經濟學家杜爾歌(Anne Robert Jacques Turgot,
1727~81)的拉丁文讚詞最為精闢有力:「他從天空抓
到雷電,從專制者手中奪回權利」。(拉丁文:
“Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis”,英譯:
“He snatched the lightning from the sky and the
scepter from tyrants.)
17.
18. While in France Franklin designed and
commissioned Augustin Dupré to
engrave the medallion "Libertas
Americana" minted in Paris in 1783
19. The delegations at the Treaty of Paris: John
Jay, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Henry
Laurens, and William Temple Franklin..
41. A nineteenth-century print based on Poor
Richard's Almanack, showing the author
surrounded by twenty-four illustrations of
many of his best-known sayings.
43. The Late Benjamin
Franklin
•With a malevolence which is without parallel in
history, he would work all day, and then sit up
nights, and let on to be studying algebra by the
light of a smoldering fire, so that all other boys
might have to do that also, or else have Benjamin
Franklin thrown up to them. Not satisfied with
these proceedings, he had a fashion of living wholly
on bread and water, and studying astronomy at
meal time--a thing which has brought affliction to
millions of boys since, whose fathers had read
Franklin's pernicious biography.
44. Letter from Mark Twain, San
Francisco Alta California, July
25, 1869
•If it had not been for him, with his
incendiary "Early to bed and early to rise,"
and all that sort of foolishness, I wouldn't
have been so harried and worried and raked
out of bed at such unseemly hours when I
was young. The late Franklin was well enough
in his way; but it would have looked more
dignified in him to have gone on making
candles and letting other people get up when
they wanted to.
48. The Protestant Ethic and
the Spirit of Capitalism
•Remember, that time is money. He that can earn ten
shillings a day by his labor, and goes abroad, or sits idle, one
half of that day, though he spends but sixpence during his
diversion or idleness, ought not to reckon that the only
expense; he has really spent, or rather thrown away, five
shillings besides.[...]Remember, that money is the prolific,
generating nature. Money can beget money, and its
offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned is
six, turned again is seven and threepence, and so on, till it
becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the
more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise
quicker and quicker. He that kills a breeding sow, destroys
all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that
murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced,