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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... These memoirs were brought down to the year 1757- Together with fome other manufcripts they were left behind him at his death , and were confidered as conftituting a part of his pofthumous property . It is a little extraordinary that ...
... These memoirs were brought down to the year 1757- Together with fome other manufcripts they were left behind him at his death , and were confidered as conftituting a part of his pofthumous property . It is a little extraordinary that ...
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... papers as , by their scientifical na- ture , were lefs adapted for general perufal . These he may probably hereafter publish in a volume by themfelv . He fubjoins a letter from the late celebrated and amiable 6 PREFACF .
... papers as , by their scientifical na- ture , were lefs adapted for general perufal . These he may probably hereafter publish in a volume by themfelv . He fubjoins a letter from the late celebrated and amiable 6 PREFACF .
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... these objects , I have always been perfectly regardless of what kind of food we be- fore me ; and I pay fo little attention toît exon now , that it would be a hard matter for me to recollect , a few hours after I had dined , of what my ...
... these objects , I have always been perfectly regardless of what kind of food we be- fore me ; and I pay fo little attention toît exon now , that it would be a hard matter for me to recollect , a few hours after I had dined , of what my ...
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... in small separate volumes . These I afterwards fold in order to buy an historical collection by R. Burton , which confifted of fmall cheap volumes , amountine all to about forty or fifty . My father's little DR . FRANKLIN . 23.
... in small separate volumes . These I afterwards fold in order to buy an historical collection by R. Burton , which confifted of fmall cheap volumes , amountine all to about forty or fifty . My father's little DR . FRANKLIN . 23.
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... these refolves an odd volume of the Spectator fell into my hands . This was a publication I had never seen . I bought the volume , and read it again and again . I was enchanted with it , thought the ftyle excel- lent , and wished it ...
... these refolves an odd volume of the Spectator fell into my hands . This was a publication I had never seen . I bought the volume , and read it again and again . I was enchanted with it , thought the ftyle excel- lent , and wished it ...
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