AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN1901 |
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... brother James by indentures which made him an apprentice until he was twenty-one years old. He learned his craft easily and rapidly and, having freer access to books, often sat up all night in order to return a borrowed volume in the ...
... brother James by indentures which made him an apprentice until he was twenty-one years old. He learned his craft easily and rapidly and, having freer access to books, often sat up all night in order to return a borrowed volume in the ...
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... brother had launched upon the untried sea of journalism. It had had three predecessors in the new world : the Boston News- Letter, the Boston Gazette, and the American Weekly Mercury, published in Philadelphia. Several of James ...
... brother had launched upon the untried sea of journalism. It had had three predecessors in the new world : the Boston News- Letter, the Boston Gazette, and the American Weekly Mercury, published in Philadelphia. Several of James ...
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but being ingenious and encouraged in learning, as all his brothers were, by an Esquire Palmer, then the principal inhabitant of that parish, he qualified himself for the bar and became a considerable man in the county ; was chief mover ...
but being ingenious and encouraged in learning, as all his brothers were, by an Esquire Palmer, then the principal inhabitant of that parish, he qualified himself for the bar and became a considerable man in the county ; was chief mover ...
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... brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me as the tithe of his sons to the service of the Church. My early readiness in learning to 6 ...
... brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me as the tithe of his sons to the service of the Church. My early readiness in learning to 6 ...
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... brother John, who was bred to that business, having left my father, married and set up for himself at Rhode Island, there was every appearance that I was destined to supply his place and become a tallow-chandler. But my dislike to the ...
... brother John, who was bred to that business, having left my father, married and set up for himself at Rhode Island, there was every appearance that I was destined to supply his place and become a tallow-chandler. But my dislike to the ...
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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