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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... produce perspiration , suc- ceeded ; and the following morning he started on foot for Burlington , fifty miles distant . The next evening , after a very rainy day , which drenched him thoroughly , he was compelled to put up with the ...
... produce perspiration , suc- ceeded ; and the following morning he started on foot for Burlington , fifty miles distant . The next evening , after a very rainy day , which drenched him thoroughly , he was compelled to put up with the ...
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... produced , and brought within 100l . sterling , the Governor sug- gested that he had better proceed by the annual ship from Philadelphia to London , to select his own types , and to open a correspondence with the English booksellers ...
... produced , and brought within 100l . sterling , the Governor sug- gested that he had better proceed by the annual ship from Philadelphia to London , to select his own types , and to open a correspondence with the English booksellers ...
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... produce it as yours ; I will pretend to have had no time to produce any thing . " The friends assembled ; Watson first produced a tolerable performance : Osborne a much better one ; Ralph's was now called for , but he declared he had no ...
... produce it as yours ; I will pretend to have had no time to produce any thing . " The friends assembled ; Watson first produced a tolerable performance : Osborne a much better one ; Ralph's was now called for , but he declared he had no ...
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... produce ; and having little to give , ' he says quaintly , " he gave expectations . He was , otherwise , an ingenious sensible man , and a good go- vernor for the people , though not for the proprieta- ries , whose interests he ...
... produce ; and having little to give , ' he says quaintly , " he gave expectations . He was , otherwise , an ingenious sensible man , and a good go- vernor for the people , though not for the proprieta- ries , whose interests he ...
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... producing the first draft of Franklin's plan for his conduct in life , which there will be occasion to speak of shortly . His journal , kept throughout the voyage , exhibits the observant character of his mind . The following is a ...
... producing the first draft of Franklin's plan for his conduct in life , which there will be occasion to speak of shortly . His journal , kept throughout the voyage , exhibits the observant character of his mind . The following is a ...
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