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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... hope , though I cannot count upon it , that the Divine goodness will still be exercised towards me , either by prolonging the duration of my happiness to the close of life , or by giving me fortitude to support any melan- choly reverse ...
... hope , though I cannot count upon it , that the Divine goodness will still be exercised towards me , either by prolonging the duration of my happiness to the close of life , or by giving me fortitude to support any melan- choly reverse ...
Page 26
... hope that I should succeed , in time , in writing decently in the English language , which was one of the great objects of my ambition . The time which I devoted to these exercises , and to reading , was the evening after my day's labor ...
... hope that I should succeed , in time , in writing decently in the English language , which was one of the great objects of my ambition . The time which I devoted to these exercises , and to reading , was the evening after my day's labor ...
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... hope to please your audi- tors , conciliate their good will , or work convic- tion on those whom you may be desirous of gain- ing over to your views . Pope judiciously ob- serves , Men must be taught as if you taught them not , And ...
... hope to please your audi- tors , conciliate their good will , or work convic- tion on those whom you may be desirous of gain- ing over to your views . Pope judiciously ob- serves , Men must be taught as if you taught them not , And ...
Page 66
... hope , by their instrumentality , of rising in the world . It was all to no purpose ; paper after paper of his poem continued to arrive every post . Meanwhile Mrs. T *** having lost , on his ac- count , both her friends and business ...
... hope , by their instrumentality , of rising in the world . It was all to no purpose ; paper after paper of his poem continued to arrive every post . Meanwhile Mrs. T *** having lost , on his ac- count , both her friends and business ...
Page 102
... hope that the remainder will , at some future period , be communicated to the public . We have no hesitation in supposing that every reader will find himself greatly interested by the frank simplicity and the philosophical dis- cernment ...
... hope that the remainder will , at some future period , be communicated to the public . We have no hesitation in supposing that every reader will find himself greatly interested by the frank simplicity and the philosophical dis- cernment ...
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