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 12
... called " a franklin , enriched with great poffeffions ; and also other " freeholders and many yeoman , able for their livelihoods " to make a jury in form aforementioned . " Old Tranflation . Chaucer too calls his country gentleman a ...
... called " a franklin , enriched with great poffeffions ; and also other " freeholders and many yeoman , able for their livelihoods " to make a jury in form aforementioned . " Old Tranflation . Chaucer too calls his country gentleman a ...
Page 20
... called home to affift my father in his occupation , which was that of a foap - boiler and tallow - chandler ; a business to which he had ferved no apprenticeship , but which he embraced on his arrival in New - Eng- land , because he ...
... called home to affift my father in his occupation , which was that of a foap - boiler and tallow - chandler ; a business to which he had ferved no apprenticeship , but which he embraced on his arrival in New - Eng- land , because he ...
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... called the Light- houfe Tragedy , contained an account of the ship- wreck of Capt . Worthilake and his two daugh- ters ; the other was a failor's fong on the capture of the noted pirate called Teach , or Black beard , They were wretched ...
... called the Light- houfe Tragedy , contained an account of the ship- wreck of Capt . Worthilake and his two daugh- ters ; the other was a failor's fong on the capture of the noted pirate called Teach , or Black beard , They were wretched ...
Page 39
... called out to them , and made figns to prevail on them to come and take us up ; but either they did not understand us , or they deemed our re- queft impracticable , and withdrew : Night came on , and nothing remained for us but to wait ...
... called out to them , and made figns to prevail on them to come and take us up ; but either they did not understand us , or they deemed our re- queft impracticable , and withdrew : Night came on , and nothing remained for us but to wait ...
Page 40
... called an itinerant doctor ; for there was no town in Eng- land , or indeed in Europe , of which he could not give a particular account . He was neither deficient in understanding nor literature , but he was a fad infidel ; and , fome ...
... called an itinerant doctor ; for there was no town in Eng- land , or indeed in Europe , of which he could not give a particular account . He was neither deficient in understanding nor literature , but he was a fad infidel ; and , fome ...
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