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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... to those to whom Dr. Franklin's language is native . The first part of the hiftory of his life is tranfla ted from that publication . A Skinner 2.20 The style of thefe memoirs is uncommonly pleafing . The 11-25-27 10/27/30.
... to those to whom Dr. Franklin's language is native . The first part of the hiftory of his life is tranfla ted from that publication . A Skinner 2.20 The style of thefe memoirs is uncommonly pleafing . The 11-25-27 10/27/30.
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... first time , brought together from various refources , will be found to be more miscellaneous than any of Dr. Franklin's that have formerly been collect- ed , and will therefore be more generally amu- fing . Dr. Franklin tells us , in ...
... first time , brought together from various refources , will be found to be more miscellaneous than any of Dr. Franklin's that have formerly been collect- ed , and will therefore be more generally amu- fing . Dr. Franklin tells us , in ...
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... first breath and spent my ear- liest years , I have raised myself to a state of opu- lence and to fome degree of celebrity in the world . A conftant good fortune has attended me through every period of life to my prefent advanced age ...
... first breath and spent my ear- liest years , I have raised myself to a state of opu- lence and to fome degree of celebrity in the world . A conftant good fortune has attended me through every period of life to my prefent advanced age ...
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... first justice at the affize , To help the poor , the doubtful to advise . In all employments , generous , just he prov'd , Renown'd for courtesy , by all belov'd . tics , too much fo perhaps for his fituation . 12 LIFE OF.
... first justice at the affize , To help the poor , the doubtful to advise . In all employments , generous , just he prov'd , Renown'd for courtesy , by all belov'd . tics , too much fo perhaps for his fituation . 12 LIFE OF.
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... first colonists of New England , of whom Cotton Mather makes honourable mention , in his Ecclefiaftical Hiftory of that province , as " a pious and learned Englishman , " if I rightly recol- lect his expreffions . I have been told of ...
... first colonists of New England , of whom Cotton Mather makes honourable mention , in his Ecclefiaftical Hiftory of that province , as " a pious and learned Englishman , " if I rightly recol- lect his expreffions . I have been told of ...
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