AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN1901 |
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... withdrawn public attention from his extraordinary career and sensibly diminished nis reputation ; a process which has been aided by Franklin's lack of idealism in mind and character; but the estimate of Franklin by Europe has.
... withdrawn public attention from his extraordinary career and sensibly diminished nis reputation ; a process which has been aided by Franklin's lack of idealism in mind and character; but the estimate of Franklin by Europe has.
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... 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.
... 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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... minds." From this rich soil of human experience and achievement Franklin drew impulse and instruction in equal degree ; and the reading of the Lives left a permanent impression on his character. In his simplicity, frankness, courage ...
... minds." From this rich soil of human experience and achievement Franklin drew impulse and instruction in equal degree ; and the reading of the Lives left a permanent impression on his character. In his simplicity, frankness, courage ...
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... mind, and make me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales and turned them into verse ; and. after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. I also sometimes jumbled my collections of hints into ...
... mind, and make me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales and turned them into verse ; and. after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. I also sometimes jumbled my collections of hints into ...
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... mind in an almost continuous stream. And this voluminous production was characterized in every form by transparent clearness, directness, simplicity, and humor. In 1771, during a visit to Twyford as the guest of the Bishop of St. Asaph ...
... mind in an almost continuous stream. And this voluminous production was characterized in every form by transparent clearness, directness, simplicity, and humor. In 1771, during a visit to Twyford as the guest of the Bishop of St. Asaph ...
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