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And as the chief ends of conversation are to inform or to be informed , to please or to persuade , I wish well - meaning and sensible men would not lessen their power of doing good by a positive , assuming manner , that seldom fails to ...
And as the chief ends of conversation are to inform or to be informed , to please or to persuade , I wish well - meaning and sensible men would not lessen their power of doing good by a positive , assuming manner , that seldom fails to ...
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In this manner , I went through Market - street to Fourth - street , and passed the house of Mr Read , the father of my future wife . She was standing at the door , observed me , and thought , with reason , that I made a very singular ...
In this manner , I went through Market - street to Fourth - street , and passed the house of Mr Read , the father of my future wife . She was standing at the door , observed me , and thought , with reason , that I made a very singular ...
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He then offered to engage with one Roberts , a bookseller in Paternoster - row , to produce a succession of essays after the manner of the Spectator ; but the publisher did not approve of his specimens . Making a similarly fruitless ...
He then offered to engage with one Roberts , a bookseller in Paternoster - row , to produce a succession of essays after the manner of the Spectator ; but the publisher did not approve of his specimens . Making a similarly fruitless ...
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“ The purport of it was to prove the doctrine of fate , from the supposed at . tributes of God , in some such manner as this . That in erecting and governing the world , as he was infinitely wise , he knew what would be best ...
“ The purport of it was to prove the doctrine of fate , from the supposed at . tributes of God , in some such manner as this . That in erecting and governing the world , as he was infinitely wise , he knew what would be best ...
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My extraordinary quickness in composing always procured me such work as was most urgent , and which is commonly best paid ; and thus my time passed away in a very pleasant manner . ” Franklin , from boyhood , was a capital swimmer .
My extraordinary quickness in composing always procured me such work as was most urgent , and which is commonly best paid ; and thus my time passed away in a very pleasant manner . ” Franklin , from boyhood , was a capital swimmer .
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