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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... character . - Family history . - Early destination and apprenticeship . - Absconds , and arrives at Philadelphia . THE lives of great and useful men have been com- pared to the course of rivers . They often rise in the most obscure and ...
... character . - Family history . - Early destination and apprenticeship . - Absconds , and arrives at Philadelphia . THE lives of great and useful men have been com- pared to the course of rivers . They often rise in the most obscure and ...
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... character , delivered by Dr Franklin in old age to his only son , forming as it does an excellent portrait of a father of a family in a subordinate line of life . " It will not perhaps be uninteresting to you to know what sort of a man ...
... character , delivered by Dr Franklin in old age to his only son , forming as it does an excellent portrait of a father of a family in a subordinate line of life . " It will not perhaps be uninteresting to you to know what sort of a man ...
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... character , and his sin- gular ability for temperate and fair discussion . He here again receives the advantage of his father's su perintendence of his plans . The papers both of Ben- jamin and his friend were accidentally seen by him ...
... character , and his sin- gular ability for temperate and fair discussion . He here again receives the advantage of his father's su perintendence of his plans . The papers both of Ben- jamin and his friend were accidentally seen by him ...
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... character also was not in good savour with the ruling powers ; and his father was too just a man not to avow his dis- pleasure at his present determination . Covert measures were therefore resorted to in the management of his departure ...
... character also was not in good savour with the ruling powers ; and his father was too just a man not to avow his dis- pleasure at his present determination . Covert measures were therefore resorted to in the management of his departure ...
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... character of his new master , who was the ready dupe of old Bradford's questions as to all his connexions and prospects , and in no small degree surprised and mor- tified when informed of his name . In Keimer he found the professions of ...
... character of his new master , who was the ready dupe of old Bradford's questions as to all his connexions and prospects , and in no small degree surprised and mor- tified when informed of his name . In Keimer he found the professions of ...
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