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Updated: June 26, 2025
The worst fellow in the crowd was a member of a fire-company, and being a city policeman was supposed to be a protector of the peace.
He was in bed, but sprang up the instant he heard a violent knocking at the door. In his haste, he thrust on an old rough coat and hat, which he was accustomed to wear to fires; for, in addition to his various other employments, he belonged to a fire-company.
I believe she could take the wheel of a steamboat in a storm, or the hose of a fire-engine in a conflagration, and handle it as well as the captain of the boat or of the fire-company." "Have you ever talked with her about studying medicine?" "Indeed I have. Oh, if she would only begin with me! What good times we would have studying together!" "I don't doubt it. Medicine is a very pleasant study.
He also organized and equipped a fire-company; paved and lighted the streets of Philadelphia; established a high school and an academy for the study of English branches; founded the Philadelphia Public Hospital; invented the toggle-joint printing-press, the Franklin Stove, and various other useful mechanical devices.
"Then, why is not the whole subject fairly before us?" remarked Coleman. "I move that we proceed to organize a fire-company of thirty members at once." Coleman's proposition was adopted unanimously. Franklin discussed the plan in the Gazette, and all the members of the Junto worked hard for it outside.
If a regiment is merely a caucus, and the colonel the chairman, or merely a fire-company, and the colonel the foreman, or merely a prayer-meeting, and the colonel the moderator, or merely a bar-room, and the colonel the landlord, then the failure of the whole thing is a foregone conclusion.
I believe she could take the wheel of a steamboat in a storm, or the hose of a fire-engine in a conflagration, and handle it as well as the captain of the boat or of the fire-company." "Have you ever talked with her about studying medicine?" "Indeed I have. Oh, if she would only begin with me! What good times we would have studying together!" "I don't doubt it. Medicine is a very pleasant study.
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