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 11
... hope , though I cannot count upon it , that the divine goodness will still be exercised towards me , either by prolonging the duration of my happiness to the close of life , or by giv- ing me fortitude to fupport any melancholy re ...
... hope , though I cannot count upon it , that the divine goodness will still be exercised towards me , either by prolonging the duration of my happiness to the close of life , or by giv- ing me fortitude to fupport any melancholy re ...
Page 28
... hope that I fhould fucceed , in time , in writing the English language , which was one of the great objects o my ambition . The time which I devoted to thefe exercife and to reading , was the evening after my day . abour was finifhed ...
... hope that I fhould fucceed , in time , in writing the English language , which was one of the great objects o my ambition . The time which I devoted to thefe exercife and to reading , was the evening after my day . abour was finifhed ...
Page 32
... hope to please your audi- tors , conciliate their good - will , and work con- viction on those whom you may be defirous of gaining over to your views . Fope judiciously obferves , Men must be taught as if you taught them not , And ...
... hope to please your audi- tors , conciliate their good - will , and work con- viction on those whom you may be defirous of gaining over to your views . Fope judiciously obferves , Men must be taught as if you taught them not , And ...
Page 73
... hope , by their inftrumentality , of rifing in the world . It was all to no purpose ; paper after paper of his poem continued to arrive every post . Meanwhile Mrs. T *** having loft , on his account , both her friends and her business ...
... hope , by their inftrumentality , of rifing in the world . It was all to no purpose ; paper after paper of his poem continued to arrive every post . Meanwhile Mrs. T *** having loft , on his account , both her friends and her business ...
Page 113
... hope that the remainder will , at fome future period , be communicated to the pub- lic . We have no hesitation in fuppofing that every reader will find himself greatly intereffed by the frank fimplicity and the philolophical dif ...
... hope that the remainder will , at fome future period , be communicated to the pub- lic . We have no hesitation in fuppofing that every reader will find himself greatly intereffed by the frank fimplicity and the philolophical dif ...
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