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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Including a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the War of the Independence... LONDON : Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES , Northumberland - court , THE LIFE OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN . CHAPTER I. Importance of.
Including a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the War of the Independence... LONDON : Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES , Northumberland - court , THE LIFE OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN . CHAPTER I. Importance of.
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... Importance of his life 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 ...
... Importance of his life 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 ...
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... important points : we possess , happily , ample details of it , some of the most interesting of them furnished by him- self . Let the humblest reader of these pages there- ⚫fore enter upon them with the assurance of their be- ing ...
... important points : we possess , happily , ample details of it , some of the most interesting of them furnished by him- self . Let the humblest reader of these pages there- ⚫fore enter upon them with the assurance of their be- ing ...
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... important to all his proceedings . Very humble , and humbly dealt with , was his first attempt at authorship- " wretched stuff , " he lived to call it , “ in the street- ballad style ; " but the mercenary brother found his account in ...
... important to all his proceedings . Very humble , and humbly dealt with , was his first attempt at authorship- " wretched stuff , " he lived to call it , “ in the street- ballad style ; " but the mercenary brother found his account in ...
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... important business . In the voyage from Newport , he accompanied a female Quaker and her family , to whom he states him- self to have incurred no small obligation . Observing a considerable familiarity between him and her servants , she ...
... important business . In the voyage from Newport , he accompanied a female Quaker and her family , to whom he states him- self to have incurred no small obligation . Observing a considerable familiarity between him and her servants , she ...
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