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Page 14
... liberty I design to take for the end above - mentioned . As yet I have but a few correspondents , though they begin now to increase . The following letter , left for me at the printer's , is one of the first I have received , which I ...
... liberty I design to take for the end above - mentioned . As yet I have but a few correspondents , though they begin now to increase . The following letter , left for me at the printer's , is one of the first I have received , which I ...
Page 81
... liberty . If you cannot pay at the time , you will be ashamed to see your creditor ; you will be in fear when you speak to him ; you will make poor , pitiful , sneaking excuses , and , by degrees , come to lose your veracity , and sink ...
... liberty . If you cannot pay at the time , you will be ashamed to see your creditor ; you will be in fear when you speak to him ; you will make poor , pitiful , sneaking excuses , and , by degrees , come to lose your veracity , and sink ...
Page 82
... liberty , by confining you in gaol for life , or by selling you for a servant , if you should not be able to pay him . When you have got your bargain , you may , per- haps , think little of payment ; but , as poor Richard says ...
... liberty , by confining you in gaol for life , or by selling you for a servant , if you should not be able to pay him . When you have got your bargain , you may , per- haps , think little of payment ; but , as poor Richard says ...
Page 102
... liberty , his virtue , and perhaps his friends , to attain it , I have said to myself , " This man gives too much for his whistle . " When I saw another fond of popularity , con- stantly employing himself in political bustles , neg ...
... liberty , his virtue , and perhaps his friends , to attain it , I have said to myself , " This man gives too much for his whistle . " When I saw another fond of popularity , con- stantly employing himself in political bustles , neg ...
Page 49
... of your own , and being hungry , should kill one , an infamous death must be the consequence : " he would probably have pre- VOL . II . D ferred his liberty , and his common right of killing COMMERCIAL AND POLITICAL . ' 49.
... of your own , and being hungry , should kill one , an infamous death must be the consequence : " he would probably have pre- VOL . II . D ferred his liberty , and his common right of killing COMMERCIAL AND POLITICAL . ' 49.
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