The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral, and Literary, with His LifeS. Andrus and Son, 1847 - 304 pages |
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... called a Franklin , enriched with great pos sessions ; and also other freeholders and many yeomen , able for their livelihoods to make a jury in form aforementioned . ” Old Translation . Chaucer , too , calls his country gentleman a ...
... called a Franklin , enriched with great pos sessions ; and also other freeholders and many yeomen , able for their livelihoods to make a jury in form aforementioned . ” Old Translation . Chaucer , too , calls his country gentleman a ...
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... called home to as- sist my father in his occupation , which was that of soap - boiler and tallow chandler ; a business to which he had served no apprenticeship , but which he had embraced on his arrival in New- England , because he ...
... called home to as- sist my father in his occupation , which was that of soap - boiler and tallow chandler ; a business to which he had served no apprenticeship , but which he had embraced on his arrival in New- England , because he ...
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... called the Lighthouse Tragedy , contained an account of the shipwreck of Capt . Worthilake , and his two daughters ; the other was a sailor's song on the capture of the noted pirate called Teach , or Blackbeard . They were wretched ...
... called the Lighthouse Tragedy , contained an account of the shipwreck of Capt . Worthilake , and his two daughters ; the other was a sailor's song on the capture of the noted pirate called Teach , or Blackbeard . They were wretched ...
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... called out to them , and made signs to prevail on them to come and take us up ; but either they did not un- derstand us , or they deemed our request imprac- ticable , and withdrew . Night came on , and nothing remained for us , but to ...
... called out to them , and made signs to prevail on them to come and take us up ; but either they did not un- derstand us , or they deemed our request imprac- ticable , and withdrew . Night came on , and nothing remained for us , but to ...
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... called an itinerant doctor ; for there was no town in England , or in- deed in Europe , of which he could not give a par- ticular account . He was neither deficient in understanding , nor literature ; but he was a sad infidel ; and ...
... called an itinerant doctor ; for there was no town in England , or in- deed in Europe , of which he could not give a par- ticular account . He was neither deficient in understanding , nor literature ; but he was a sad infidel ; and ...
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