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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... soon despatched , and afforded him leisure for reading and study , which he could obtain in no other way . # Evidently fond of disputation , and having increased some previous tendency to scepticism by the perusal of Collins and ...
... soon despatched , and afforded him leisure for reading and study , which he could obtain in no other way . # Evidently fond of disputation , and having increased some previous tendency to scepticism by the perusal of Collins and ...
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... soon imbibed a desire to try his hand amongst the latter , and began by placing anonymous essays , in a disguised hand- writing , under the office - door . Great was his delight on finding them attributed to some of the most in- genious ...
... soon imbibed a desire to try his hand amongst the latter , and began by placing anonymous essays , in a disguised hand- writing , under the office - door . Great was his delight on finding them attributed to some of the most in- genious ...
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... soon diverted his melancholy , and con- firmed his sceptical opinions , and with whom he laid the foundation of an acquaintance which continued for many years . Arriving the third day , Saturday , at Bur- lington , he had the misfortune ...
... soon diverted his melancholy , and con- firmed his sceptical opinions , and with whom he laid the foundation of an acquaintance which continued for many years . Arriving the third day , Saturday , at Bur- lington , he had the misfortune ...
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... soon be , and ought to be , at the head of his profession in Philadelphia . This circumstance occurred by accident at Newcastle in the county of Delaware . Franklin had a brother - in - law , master of a trading sloop which frequented ...
... soon be , and ought to be , at the head of his profession in Philadelphia . This circumstance occurred by accident at Newcastle in the county of Delaware . Franklin had a brother - in - law , master of a trading sloop which frequented ...
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... soon taught him how little he was to be intrusted , at this time , with more 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 ...
... soon taught him how little he was to be intrusted , at this time , with more 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 ...
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