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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... PARIS FOR PEACE ; WITH THE HISTORY OF HIS POLITICAL AND OTHER WRITINGS . R 268127 LONDON : -1826 . PRINTED FOR HUNT AND CLARKE , TAVISTOCK - STREET , COVENT - GARDEN . LONDON : Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES , Northumberland - court ! ...
... PARIS FOR PEACE ; WITH THE HISTORY OF HIS POLITICAL AND OTHER WRITINGS . R 268127 LONDON : -1826 . PRINTED FOR HUNT AND CLARKE , TAVISTOCK - STREET , COVENT - GARDEN . LONDON : Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES , Northumberland - court ! ...
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... Paris . He was a man of sense , he was a thinking man ; but be- ing deprived of all conversation , to what purpose should he think ? For he was denied even the instru- ments of expressing his thoughts in writing . There is no burden so ...
... Paris . He was a man of sense , he was a thinking man ; but be- ing deprived of all conversation , to what purpose should he think ? For he was denied even the instru- ments of expressing his thoughts in writing . There is no burden so ...
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... Paris , Franklin was encouraged to continue the correspondence . According to the well known compliment paid him afterwards by M.Turgot , * he seems to have been the first person who discovered the affinity between lightning and ...
... Paris , Franklin was encouraged to continue the correspondence . According to the well known compliment paid him afterwards by M.Turgot , * he seems to have been the first person who discovered the affinity between lightning and ...
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... Paris , some of the highest ground in that capital . D'Alibard's machine first showed signs of electricity . On the 10th of May , 1752 , a thunder - cloud passed over it in the absence of M. D'Alibard , and a number of sparks were drawn ...
... Paris , some of the highest ground in that capital . D'Alibard's machine first showed signs of electricity . On the 10th of May , 1752 , a thunder - cloud passed over it in the absence of M. D'Alibard , and a number of sparks were drawn ...
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... Paris , some few years after this period , is so much in point here , and contains so good a lecture upon early rising , that the reader will not think any apology necessary for introducing it : - " MESSIEURS , -You often entertain us ...
... Paris , some few years after this period , is so much in point here , and contains so good a lecture upon early rising , that the reader will not think any apology necessary for introducing it : - " MESSIEURS , -You often entertain us ...
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