Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin FranklinJ.M. Dent, 1913 - 314 páginas |
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... became , however , a pretty good prose writer . More of him hereafter . But , as I may not have occasion again to mention the other two , I shall just remark here , that Watson died in my arms a few years after , much lamented , being ...
... became , however , a pretty good prose writer . More of him hereafter . But , as I may not have occasion again to mention the other two , I shall just remark here , that Watson died in my arms a few years after , much lamented , being ...
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... became fashionable ; and our people , having no publick amusements to divert their attention from study , became better acquainted with books , and in a few years were observ❜d by strangers to be better instructed and more intelligent ...
... became fashionable ; and our people , having no publick amusements to divert their attention from study , became better acquainted with books , and in a few years were observ❜d by strangers to be better instructed and more intelligent ...
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... became at length so easy , and so habitual to me , that 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 i principally owing that ...
... became at length so easy , and so habitual to me , that 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 i principally owing that ...
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