AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN1901 |
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... appeared annually for a quarter of a century. Almanacs were in every household and, in remote parts of the country, furnished the only reading matter. Professor Mat-Master tells us that they were the journals and account books of the ...
... appeared annually for a quarter of a century. Almanacs were in every household and, in remote parts of the country, furnished the only reading matter. Professor Mat-Master tells us that they were the journals and account books of the ...
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... appeared in the almanac for 1758, is a condensed philosophy of practical life. Its success was instantaneous ; it was published again and again and found its way to the whole civilized world. Poor Richard's wisdom did not wholly ...
... appeared in the almanac for 1758, is a condensed philosophy of practical life. Its success was instantaneous ; it was published again and again and found its way to the whole civilized world. Poor Richard's wisdom did not wholly ...
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... appeared in America ; a man whose greatness is revealed not in elevation but in extension ; not in insight but in understanding; not in imagination but in practical reason; not in spiritual vision but in broad, varied, and useful ...
... appeared in America ; a man whose greatness is revealed not in elevation but in extension ; not in insight but in understanding; not in imagination but in practical reason; not in spiritual vision but in broad, varied, and useful ...
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... appeared to me as written with manly freedom and a pleasing simplicity. The six lines I remember, but have forgotten the preceding ones of the stanza ; the purport of them was that his censures proceeded from good-will, and therefore he ...
... appeared to me as written with manly freedom and a pleasing simplicity. The six lines I remember, but have forgotten the preceding ones of the stanza ; the purport of them was that his censures proceeded from good-will, and therefore he ...
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... appearance that I was destined to supply his place and become a tallow-chandler. But my dislike to the trade continuing, my father had apprehensions that if he did not put me to one more agreeable I should break loose and go to sea, as ...
... appearance that I was destined to supply his place and become a tallow-chandler. But my dislike to the trade continuing, my father had apprehensions that if he did not put me to one more agreeable I should break loose and go to sea, as ...
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acquaintance affairs afterward almanac appeared arrived Assembly attend began BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Boston bred brother brought called captain colonies continued conversation debt desired dispute Ecton employed endeavored England father Franklin friends gave give Gnadenhutten Gout governor hands honor horses hundred Indians industry inhabitants instructions Keimer kind learning length letters Little Britain lived lodging London Lord Loudoun Madeira wine master means mention mind never night observed occasion officers opinion pamphlet paper Pennsylvania perhaps persons Philadelphia piece pleased pleasure Poems Poor Richard says Poor Richard's Almanac porringer present printed printer printing-house procure proposed province Quakers received Riddlesden sailed sect sensible shillings Socratic method sometimes soon Stephen Potts street thee things thought thousand pounds tion told took Uncle Benjamin virtue wagons walk writing wrote young