AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN1901 |
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... The library of the elder Franklin was small in bulk and made up chiefly of books of polemical theology ; and probably there has never been a mind more indifferent to writing of this kind than that of the younger Franklin. wi INTRODUCTION.
... The library of the elder Franklin was small in bulk and made up chiefly of books of polemical theology ; and probably there has never been a mind more indifferent to writing of this kind than that of the younger Franklin. wi INTRODUCTION.
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... kind if his brother had not assured him that verse-writers were generally beggars. Escaping this peril Franklin devoted himself to prose, writing with an instinctive conviction that the ability to use the pen with freedom and power was ...
... kind if his brother had not assured him that verse-writers were generally beggars. Escaping this peril Franklin devoted himself to prose, writing with an instinctive conviction that the ability to use the pen with freedom and power was ...
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... kind of a man my father was. He had an excellent constitution, was of a middle stature, well set, and very strong. He could draw prettily and was skilled a little in music. His voice was sonorous and agreeable, so that when he played on ...
... kind of a man my father was. He had an excellent constitution, was of a middle stature, well set, and very strong. He could draw prettily and was skilled a little in music. His voice was sonorous and agreeable, so that when he played on ...
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... kind ; so that I was brought up in such a perfect inattention to those matters as to be quite indifferent what kind of food was set before me. Indeed, I am so unobservant of it that to this day I can scarce tell a few hours after dinner ...
... kind ; so that I was brought up in such a perfect inattention to those matters as to be quite indifferent what kind of food was set before me. Indeed, I am so unobservant of it that to this day I can scarce tell a few hours after dinner ...
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... kind enough to rouse me. This, therefore, was the first house I was in, or slept in, in Philadelphia. I the a walked down toward the river, and looking in the face of every one, I met a young Quaker man whose countenance pleased me, and ...
... kind enough to rouse me. This, therefore, was the first house I was in, or slept in, in Philadelphia. I the a walked down toward the river, and looking in the face of every one, I met a young Quaker man whose countenance pleased me, and ...
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