Autobiography [of] Benjamin FranklinJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1931 - 313 páginas Charming self-portrait covers boyhood, work as a printer, political career, scientific experiments, much more. Its openness, honesty, and readable style have made the "Autobiography" one of the great classics of the genre. |
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... friends , who amus'd themselves by writing little pieces for this paper , which gain'd it credit and made it more in demand , and these gentlemen often visited us . Hearing their conversations , and their accounts of the approbation ...
... friends , who amus'd themselves by writing little pieces for this paper , which gain'd it credit and made it more in demand , and these gentlemen often visited us . Hearing their conversations , and their accounts of the approbation ...
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... friends . Thus the matter rested for some time , when I said to my partner , " Perhaps your father is dissatisfied at the part you have undertaken in this affair of ours , and is unwilling to advance for you and me what he would for you ...
... friends . Thus the matter rested for some time , when I said to my partner , " Perhaps your father is dissatisfied at the part you have undertaken in this affair of ours , and is unwilling to advance for you and me what he would for you ...
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... Friends were all against it , and it would create such discord as might break up the company . told him that we saw no reason for that ; we were the minority , and if Friends were against the measure , and outvoted us , we must and ...
... Friends were all against it , and it would create such discord as might break up the company . told him that we saw no reason for that ; we were the minority , and if Friends were against the measure , and outvoted us , we must and ...
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