AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN1901 |
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... presents, with singular clearness and charm, one of the most original and fertile men who has yet appeared in America ; a man whose greatness is revealed not in elevation but in extension ; not in insight but in understanding; not in ...
... presents, with singular clearness and charm, one of the most original and fertile men who has yet appeared in America ; a man whose greatness is revealed not in elevation but in extension ; not in insight but in understanding; not in ...
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... present opinions. Modest and sensible men, who do not love disputation, will leave you undisturbed in the possession of your errors. In adopting such a manner, you can seldom expect to please your hearers or obtain the concurrence you ...
... present opinions. Modest and sensible men, who do not love disputation, will leave you undisturbed in the possession of your errors. In adopting such a manner, you can seldom expect to please your hearers or obtain the concurrence you ...
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... present at the conversation. Defoe has imitated him successfully in his "Eobinson Crusoe," in his "Moll Flanders,"0 and other pieces; and Richardson has done the same in his "Pamela," "etc. On approaching the island we found it was in a ...
... present at the conversation. Defoe has imitated him successfully in his "Eobinson Crusoe," in his "Moll Flanders,"0 and other pieces; and Richardson has done the same in his "Pamela," "etc. On approaching the island we found it was in a ...
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... present want a hand, being lately supplied with one ; but there was another printer in town, lately set up, one Keirner, who perhaps might employ me ; if not, I should be welcome to lodge at his house, and he would give me a little work ...
... present want a hand, being lately supplied with one ; but there was another printer in town, lately set up, one Keirner, who perhaps might employ me ; if not, I should be welcome to lodge at his house, and he would give me a little work ...
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... present undertaking and prospects ; while Bradford, not discovering that he was the other printer's father, on Keimer's saying he expected soon to get the greatest part of the business in his own hands, drew him on, by artful questions ...
... present undertaking and prospects ; while Bradford, not discovering that he was the other printer's father, on Keimer's saying he expected soon to get the greatest part of the business in his own hands, drew him on, by artful questions ...
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