AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN1901 |
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... printer's trade ; although the siren voice of the sea had not yet ceased to sing to him. At the age of twelve he was bound to his older brother James by indentures which made him an apprentice until he was twenty-one years old. He ...
... printer's trade ; although the siren voice of the sea had not yet ceased to sing to him. At the age of twelve he was bound to his older brother James by indentures which made him an apprentice until he was twenty-one years old. He ...
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... printer's apprentice was fast emancipating himself, not only from the narrowness of his personal conditions, but from the provincialism of the little colonial world in which his lot was cast. Without formal education, means, friends, or ...
... printer's apprentice was fast emancipating himself, not only from the narrowness of his personal conditions, but from the provincialism of the little colonial world in which his lot was cast. Without formal education, means, friends, or ...
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... printer ; made a few friends ; went to London on a fool's errand ; walked the streets of the great city in search of work, and finally found it in a large printing- house ; fell into evil company, and became as licentious and wasteful ...
... printer ; made a few friends ; went to London on a fool's errand ; walked the streets of the great city in search of work, and finally found it in a large printing- house ; fell into evil company, and became as licentious and wasteful ...
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... printer, although he had already one son, James, of that profession. In 1717 my brother James returned from England, with a press and letters, to set up his business in Boston. I liked it much better than that of my father, but still ...
... printer, although he had already one son, James, of that profession. In 1717 my brother James returned from England, with a press and letters, to set up his business in Boston. I liked it much better than that of my father, but still ...
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... printer. And I was rather inclined to leave Boston when I reflected that I had already made myself a little obnoxious to the governing party, and from the arbitrary proceedings of the Assembly in my brother's case, it was likely I might ...
... printer. And I was rather inclined to leave Boston when I reflected that I had already made myself a little obnoxious to the governing party, and from the arbitrary proceedings of the Assembly in my brother's case, it was likely I might ...
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