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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... business to which he had ferved no apprenticeship , but which he embraced on his arrival in New - Eng- land , because he found his own , that of a dyer , in too little request to enable him to maintain his family . I was accordingly ...
... business to which he had ferved no apprenticeship , but which he embraced on his arrival in New - Eng- land , because he found his own , that of a dyer , in too little request to enable him to maintain his family . I was accordingly ...
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... business on his own account at Rhode - Island , I was destined , to all appearance , to fupply his place , and be a candle - maker all my life : but my dislike of this occupation continuing , my Father was apprehensive , that if a more ...
... business on his own account at Rhode - Island , I was destined , to all appearance , to fupply his place , and be a candle - maker all my life : but my dislike of this occupation continuing , my Father was apprehensive , that if a more ...
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... - one , and fhould receive journeyman's wages only during the last year . In a very fhort time I made great proficiency in this business , and became very ferviccable to my brother . I had now an opportunity of pro- 24 LIFE OF.
... - one , and fhould receive journeyman's wages only during the last year . In a very fhort time I made great proficiency in this business , and became very ferviccable to my brother . I had now an opportunity of pro- 24 LIFE OF.
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... the greater part of the business of the town , led him by artful queftions , and by starting fome difficulties , to difclofe all his views , what his F hopes were founded upon , and how he intended to DR . FRANKLIN . 45.
... the greater part of the business of the town , led him by artful queftions , and by starting fome difficulties , to difclofe all his views , what his F hopes were founded upon , and how he intended to DR . FRANKLIN . 45.
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... business , was merely a compofitor and wholly incapable of working at the prefs . He had been one of the French pro- phets , and knew how to imitate their fupernatural agitations . At the time of our firft acquaintance he profeffed no ...
... business , was merely a compofitor and wholly incapable of working at the prefs . He had been one of the French pro- phets , and knew how to imitate their fupernatural agitations . At the time of our firft acquaintance he profeffed no ...
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