Memoirs of the Life & Writings of Benjamin FranklinJ.M. Dent, 1908 - 314 páginas |
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... perhaps no other book of its kind so insufficient - no other which gives , with all its appearance of unity and coherence , so fragmentary an impression of the whole man as he really was . This is not due merely to the fact that the ...
... perhaps no other book of its kind so insufficient - no other which gives , with all its appearance of unity and coherence , so fragmentary an impression of the whole man as he really was . This is not due merely to the fact that the ...
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... perhaps for these fifty years past no one has ever heard a dogmatical expression escape me . And to this habit ( after my character of integrity ) I think it principally owing that I had early so much weight with my fellow- citizens ...
... perhaps for these fifty years past no one has ever heard a dogmatical expression escape me . And to this habit ( after my character of integrity ) I think it principally owing that I had early so much weight with my fellow- citizens ...
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... perhaps they will not cen- sure very severely those who bestow some attention to affairs of this seemingly low nature . Human felicity is produc'd not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen , as by little advan ...
... perhaps they will not cen- sure very severely those who bestow some attention to affairs of this seemingly low nature . Human felicity is produc'd not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen , as by little advan ...
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