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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Consisting of His Life Written by Himself: : Together with Essays Humorous, Moral, and Literary; Chiefly in the Manner of the Spectator Benjamin Franklin. • : Engravd by PR Maverick , 65 Liberty Street .
Consisting of His Life Written by Himself: : Together with Essays Humorous, Moral, and Literary; Chiefly in the Manner of the Spectator Benjamin Franklin. • : Engravd by PR Maverick , 65 Liberty Street .
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... liberty to read me or not , as they pleafe . In fine , ( and I may well avow it , fince nobody would believe me were I to deny it , ) I shall perhaps , by this employment gratify my vanity . Scarcely indeed have I ever heard or read the ...
... liberty to read me or not , as they pleafe . In fine , ( and I may well avow it , fince nobody would believe me were I to deny it , ) I shall perhaps , by this employment gratify my vanity . Scarcely indeed have I ever heard or read the ...
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... liberty of confcience , and in fa- vour of the anabaptifts , quakers , and other fer- taries , who had fuffered perfecution . To this perfecution he attributes the wars with the na- tives , and other calamities which afflicted the ...
... liberty of confcience , and in fa- vour of the anabaptifts , quakers , and other fer- taries , who had fuffered perfecution . To this perfecution he attributes the wars with the na- tives , and other calamities which afflicted the ...
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... liberty , pre- fuming that he would not dare to produce the new contract . It was undoubtedly difhonorable to avail myself of this circumftance , and I reckon this action as one of the firft errors of my life ; but I was little capable ...
... liberty , pre- fuming that he would not dare to produce the new contract . It was undoubtedly difhonorable to avail myself of this circumftance , and I reckon this action as one of the firft errors of my life ; but I was little capable ...
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... Liberty and Ne- ceffity , Pleasure and Pain . I dedicated it to my friend Ralph , and printed a small number of co- pies . Palmer upon this treated me with more confideration , and regarded me as a young man of talents ; tho ' he ...
... Liberty and Ne- ceffity , Pleasure and Pain . I dedicated it to my friend Ralph , and printed a small number of co- pies . Palmer upon this treated me with more confideration , and regarded me as a young man of talents ; tho ' he ...
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