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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... friend Dr. Franklin , and the cir- cumftances attending it , deferves my particular gratitude . The account which he has left of his life will show , in a striking example , how a man , by talents , industry , and ... friends . I PREFAC E. 7.
... friend Dr. Franklin , and the cir- cumftances attending it , deferves my particular gratitude . The account which he has left of his life will show , in a striking example , how a man , by talents , industry , and ... friends . I PREFAC E. 7.
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... friends . I was delighted with the account you gave me in your letter of the honour fhewn to his memory at ... friend is , that he has contributed much to it . I am , with great respect , Your obliged and very humble fervant , RICHARD ...
... friends . I was delighted with the account you gave me in your letter of the honour fhewn to his memory at ... friend is , that he has contributed much to it . I am , with great respect , Your obliged and very humble fervant , RICHARD ...
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... friend , who means you well . PETER FOLGER . My brothers were all put apprentice to differ- ent trades . With respect to ... friends , who affured him that I fhould one day certainly become a man of let * Town in the Ifland of Nantucket ...
... friend , who means you well . PETER FOLGER . My brothers were all put apprentice to differ- ent trades . With respect to ... friends , who affured him that I fhould one day certainly become a man of let * Town in the Ifland of Nantucket ...
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... friends , that , perfons fo educated were often poorly provided for , he renounced his first in- tentions , took me from the grammar fchool , and fent me to a school for writing and arithmetic , kept by a Mr. George Brownwel , who was a ...
... friends , that , perfons fo educated were often poorly provided for , he renounced his first in- tentions , took me from the grammar fchool , and fent me to a school for writing and arithmetic , kept by a Mr. George Brownwel , who was a ...
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... friends , or well - informed neigh- bours , capable of rational conversation , and he was always careful to introduce afeful or ingeni- ous topics of difcourfe , which might tend to form the minds of his children . By this means he ...
... friends , or well - informed neigh- bours , capable of rational conversation , and he was always careful to introduce afeful or ingeni- ous topics of difcourfe , which might tend to form the minds of his children . By this means he ...
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