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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... turn , and saved money prior to his apprenticeship , which made him master of " Burton's Historical Collection ; " " small chapmen's books , " as he describes them , " and cheap , forty volumes in all . " His father's library contained ...
... turn , and saved money prior to his apprenticeship , which made him master of " Burton's Historical Collection ; " " small chapmen's books , " as he describes them , " and cheap , forty volumes in all . " His father's library contained ...
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... turn of thinking which influenced the principal future events of his life . We now hear no more of his preference for the sea ; or it remained with him only in the innocent shape of the love of bathing and swimming ; for he steadily ap ...
... turn of thinking which influenced the principal future events of his life . We now hear no more of his preference for the sea ; or it remained with him only in the innocent shape of the love of bathing and swimming ; for he steadily ap ...
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... turn so well provided in a few months ( about seven ) and givng his hearty consent to our youth's remaining at Philadelphia . His inclination for dispute and satire he advised him to control , and to endeavour , by the time he came of ...
... turn so well provided in a few months ( about seven ) and givng his hearty consent to our youth's remaining at Philadelphia . His inclination for dispute and satire he advised him to control , and to endeavour , by the time he came of ...
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... turn in rowing . You shall row for me , " said he , ' till we get home .'- ' No , ' I replied , ' we will not row for you . You shall , ' said he , ' or re- main upon the water all night ' As you please . ' " Let us row , ' said the ...
... turn in rowing . You shall row for me , " said he , ' till we get home .'- ' No , ' I replied , ' we will not row for you . You shall , ' said he , ' or re- main upon the water all night ' As you please . ' " Let us row , ' said the ...
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... turn , he now invited him to become his assistant in arranging and packing the goods , and to engage with him afterwards as a supe- rior clerk ; promising that , as soon as he should be qualified for the adventure , he would commission ...
... turn , he now invited him to become his assistant in arranging and packing the goods , and to engage with him afterwards as a supe- rior clerk ; promising that , as soon as he should be qualified for the adventure , he would commission ...
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