The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Including a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the War of the Independence...Hunt and Clark, 1826 - 407 pages |
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... Britain wielded for indefensible purposes . He had few advantages of education , yet mingled , finally , with the most learned and most polite society in Europe . Inheriting no patrimony but that of a perse- cuted and honest name , he ...
... Britain wielded for indefensible purposes . He had few advantages of education , yet mingled , finally , with the most learned and most polite society in Europe . Inheriting no patrimony but that of a perse- cuted and honest name , he ...
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... Britain , in rooms for which they paid 3s . 6d . a week . Ralph's ambition was to become an actor ; but the ruling powers of the drama of that day gave him no encouragement , and Wilkes , the manager of Drury Lane , candidly ad- vised ...
... Britain , in rooms for which they paid 3s . 6d . a week . Ralph's ambition was to become an actor ; but the ruling powers of the drama of that day gave him no encouragement , and Wilkes , the manager of Drury Lane , candidly ad- vised ...
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... Britain and Spain , the Association of Philadelphia regularly mounted guard on their batteries every night , and Franklin took his turn there as a common soldier . Being soon after , in consequence of these efforts , made a member of ...
... Britain and Spain , the Association of Philadelphia regularly mounted guard on their batteries every night , and Franklin took his turn there as a common soldier . Being soon after , in consequence of these efforts , made a member of ...
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... be proposed by the college . For one of them there were five competitors , who wrote upon the following subject " The motives to and advantages of a perpe- tual union between Britain and her colonies : " and 92 LIFE OF DR FRANKLIN .
... be proposed by the college . For one of them there were five competitors , who wrote upon the following subject " The motives to and advantages of a perpe- tual union between Britain and her colonies : " and 92 LIFE OF DR FRANKLIN .
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... Britain and her colonies : " and the essays were of such great merit , that they were not only published in all parts of America , but afterwards reprinted in England . Such an institution had long been a desideratum in the colonies ...
... Britain and her colonies : " and the essays were of such great merit , that they were not only published in all parts of America , but afterwards reprinted in England . Such an institution had long been a desideratum in the colonies ...
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Including a Sketch of the Rise and Progress ... Leonard Woods No preview available - 2016 |
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