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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... things for myself when I have had no mechanic at hand , and to conftruct small machines for my experiments , while the idea I have conceived has been fresh and ftrongly impreffed on my imagination . ୮ My father at length decided that I ...
... things for myself when I have had no mechanic at hand , and to conftruct small machines for my experiments , while the idea I have conceived has been fresh and ftrongly impreffed on my imagination . ୮ My father at length decided that I ...
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... Things of Socrates , in which are various examples of the fame method . Charmed to a degree of enthufi- afm with this mode of difputing , I adopted it , and renouncing blunt contradiction , and dire & t and positive argument , I affumed ...
... Things of Socrates , in which are various examples of the fame method . Charmed to a degree of enthufi- afm with this mode of difputing , I adopted it , and renouncing blunt contradiction , and dire & t and positive argument , I affumed ...
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... thing is fo or fo , for such and fuch reafons ; or it is fo , if I am not mistaken . This habit has , I think , been of confiderable advan- tage to me , when I have had occafion to imprefs my opinion on the minds of others , and ...
... thing is fo or fo , for such and fuch reafons ; or it is fo , if I am not mistaken . This habit has , I think , been of confiderable advan- tage to me , when I have had occafion to imprefs my opinion on the minds of others , and ...
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... things unknown propos'd as things forgot , And in the fame poem he afterwards advises us , To fpeak , tho ' iure , with feeming diffidence . He might have added to these lines , one that he has coupled elsewhere , in my opinion , with ...
... things unknown propos'd as things forgot , And in the fame poem he afterwards advises us , To fpeak , tho ' iure , with feeming diffidence . He might have added to these lines , one that he has coupled elsewhere , in my opinion , with ...
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... thing . that was not likely to fucceed ; a fingle newi- paper being , in their opinion , sufficient for all America , At prefent , however , in 1777 , there . are no less than twenty - five . But he carried his project into execution ...
... thing . that was not likely to fucceed ; a fingle newi- paper being , in their opinion , sufficient for all America , At prefent , however , in 1777 , there . are no less than twenty - five . But he carried his project into execution ...
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