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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... friends , he at first tried amongst them his business of a dyer , but this failing , became a soap - boiler and tallow - chandler . Here he had four more children , in all seven , by his first wife , and ten by a second ; thirteen of ...
... friends , he at first tried amongst them his business of a dyer , but this failing , became a soap - boiler and tallow - chandler . Here he had four more children , in all seven , by his first wife , and ten by a second ; thirteen of ...
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... friends or well - informed neighbours , ca- pable of rational conversation ; and he was always careful to introduce useful or ingenious topics of dis- course , which might tend to form the minds of his . children . By this means , he ...
... friends or well - informed neighbours , ca- pable of rational conversation ; and he was always careful to introduce useful or ingenious topics of dis- course , which might tend to form the minds of his . children . By this means , he ...
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... friends from undertaking it , on the ground of one paper being enough for America ! It being Benjamin's office to assist in the distribu- tion of the paper , and to communicate between the press and the contributors , he soon imbibed a ...
... friends from undertaking it , on the ground of one paper being enough for America ! It being Benjamin's office to assist in the distribu- tion of the paper , and to communicate between the press and the contributors , he soon imbibed a ...
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... friends of the new undertaking , pecuniary and lite- rary , now sat in conclave . The order must not be dis- obeyed ; but the happy circumstance of Benjamin uniting the same family - name with ( as it was supposed ) the same general ...
... friends of the new undertaking , pecuniary and lite- rary , now sat in conclave . The order must not be dis- obeyed ; but the happy circumstance of Benjamin uniting the same family - name with ( as it was supposed ) the same general ...
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... friends , except friend Collins , seem to have been forgotten . He saved money ; en- larged his literary acquaintance ; and spent his earn- ings and leisure time at once frugally and happily . The first person of consideration who ...
... friends , except friend Collins , seem to have been forgotten . He saved money ; en- larged his literary acquaintance ; and spent his earn- ings and leisure time at once frugally and happily . The first person of consideration who ...
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