The Works of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin;: Consisting of His Life Written by Himself: : Together with Essays Humorous, Moral, and Literary; Chiefly in the Manner of the Spectator, Volume 1 |
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Page 23
... small machines for my experiments , while the idea I have conceived has been fresh and ftrongly impreffed on my imagination . ୮ My father at length decided that I fhould be a cutler , and I was placed for fome days upon trial with my ...
... small machines for my experiments , while the idea I have conceived has been fresh and ftrongly impreffed on my imagination . ୮ My father at length decided that I fhould be a cutler , and I was placed for fome days upon trial with my ...
Page 37
... small sum of money , and went pri- vately on board the floop . By favour of a good wind , I found myself in three days at New- York , nearly three hundred miles from my home , at the age only of feventeen years , without knowing an ...
... small sum of money , and went pri- vately on board the floop . By favour of a good wind , I found myself in three days at New- York , nearly three hundred miles from my home , at the age only of feventeen years , without knowing an ...
Page 46
... small cast of worn- out English letters , with which he was himself at work upon an elegy on Aquilla Rofe , whom I have mentioned above , an ingenious young man , and of an excellent character , highly efteem- ed in the town , fecretary ...
... small cast of worn- out English letters , with which he was himself at work upon an elegy on Aquilla Rofe , whom I have mentioned above , an ingenious young man , and of an excellent character , highly efteem- ed in the town , fecretary ...
Page 50
... small vessel was ready to fail for Boston . I took leave of Keimer , upon the pretext of going to see my parents . The governor gave me a long letter , in which he said many flattering things of me to my father ; and ftrongly ...
... small vessel was ready to fail for Boston . I took leave of Keimer , upon the pretext of going to see my parents . The governor gave me a long letter , in which he said many flattering things of me to my father ; and ftrongly ...
Page 58
... small printing- office ; the expence of which I had calculated at about a hundred pounds fterling . He expreffed his approbation ; but asked if my prefence in England , that I might choose the characters my- self , and see that every ...
... small printing- office ; the expence of which I had calculated at about a hundred pounds fterling . He expreffed his approbation ; but asked if my prefence in England , that I might choose the characters my- self , and see that every ...
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