Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, Volumen2Harper & brothers, 1842 |
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... called to a plain , clean old man , with white locks , " Pray , Father Abraham , what think you of the times ? Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? How shall we ever be able to pay them ? What would you advise us to ...
... called to a plain , clean old man , with white locks , " Pray , Father Abraham , what think you of the times ? Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? How shall we ever be able to pay them ? What would you advise us to ...
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... called the conveniences ; and yet , only because they look pretty , how many want to have them ! By these and other extravagances , the genteel are reduced to poverty , and forced to bor- row of those whom they formerly despised , but ...
... called the conveniences ; and yet , only because they look pretty , how many want to have them ! By these and other extravagances , the genteel are reduced to poverty , and forced to bor- row of those whom they formerly despised , but ...
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... called a man of virtue , because he was scarce ever known to be quite drunken , nor was his nature much in- clined to licentiousness . One evening , as he was musing alone , his thoughts happened to take a most unusual turn , for they ...
... called a man of virtue , because he was scarce ever known to be quite drunken , nor was his nature much in- clined to licentiousness . One evening , as he was musing alone , his thoughts happened to take a most unusual turn , for they ...
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... teaches or contemplates whatever is capable of being numbered or measured . That part of the mathematics which relates to numbers only , is called arithmetic ; and that which is ESSAYS . 27 On the Usefulness of the Mathematics.
... teaches or contemplates whatever is capable of being numbered or measured . That part of the mathematics which relates to numbers only , is called arithmetic ; and that which is ESSAYS . 27 On the Usefulness of the Mathematics.
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Benjamin Franklin. only , is called arithmetic ; and that which is con- cerned about measure in general , whether length , breadth , motion , force , & c . , is called geometry . As to the usefulness of arithmetic , it is well known that ...
Benjamin Franklin. only , is called arithmetic ; and that which is con- cerned about measure in general , whether length , breadth , motion , force , & c . , is called geometry . As to the usefulness of arithmetic , it is well known that ...
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