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 45
... inhabitant of the town well - difpofed to- wards him , he communicated his project to him , and the profpect he had of fuccefs . Bradford was careful not to discover that he was the father of the other printer : and from what Keimer had ...
... inhabitant of the town well - difpofed to- wards him , he communicated his project to him , and the profpect he had of fuccefs . Bradford was careful not to discover that he was the father of the other printer : and from what Keimer had ...
Page 96
... inhabitants having all , or nearly all of them , been obliged to call together their credi- tors . That he knew , from undoubted fact , the circumftances which might lead us to fuppofe the contrary , fuch as new buildings , and the ...
... inhabitants having all , or nearly all of them , been obliged to call together their credi- tors . That he knew , from undoubted fact , the circumftances which might lead us to fuppofe the contrary , fuch as new buildings , and the ...
Page 105
... inhabitants ,. prejudiced against every fort of paper currency , from the fear of its depreciation , of which there had been an inftance in the province of New- England , to the injury of its holders , frongly opposed the measure . We ...
... inhabitants ,. prejudiced against every fort of paper currency , from the fear of its depreciation , of which there had been an inftance in the province of New- England , to the injury of its holders , frongly opposed the measure . We ...
Page 106
... inhabitants of the town were deferting it one after another . Our debates made me fo fully master of the fubject , that I wrote and published an anonymous pamphlet , entitled An Enquiry into the Nature , and Neceffity of a Paper ...
... inhabitants of the town were deferting it one after another . Our debates made me fo fully master of the fubject , that I wrote and published an anonymous pamphlet , entitled An Enquiry into the Nature , and Neceffity of a Paper ...
Page 119
... inhabitants . During the life - time of William Penn , the conftitution had been three times al- tered . After this period , the Hiftory of Penn- fylvania is little else than a recital of the quar- rels between the proprietaries , or ...
... inhabitants . During the life - time of William Penn , the conftitution had been three times al- tered . After this period , the Hiftory of Penn- fylvania is little else than a recital of the quar- rels between the proprietaries , or ...
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