AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN1901 |
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... proposed to give me his short-hand volumes of sermons to set up with if I would learn his short-hand. I continued, however, at the grammar school rather less than a year, though in that time I had risen gradually from the middle of the ...
... proposed to give me his short-hand volumes of sermons to set up with if I would learn his short-hand. I continued, however, at the grammar school rather less than a year, though in that time I had risen gradually from the middle of the ...
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... proposal was to build a wharf there for us to stand upon, and I showed my comrades a large heap of stones which were intended for a new house near the marsh and which would very well suit our purpose. Accordingly in the evening, when ...
... proposal was to build a wharf there for us to stand upon, and I showed my comrades a large heap of stones which were intended for a new house near the marsh and which would very well suit our purpose. Accordingly in the evening, when ...
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... proposed to loan me such books as I chose to read. I now took a strong inclination for poetry and wrote some little pieces. My brother, supposing it might turn to account, encouraged me and induced me to compose two occasional ballads.0 ...
... proposed to loan me such books as I chose to read. I now took a strong inclination for poetry and wrote some little pieces. My brother, supposing it might turn to account, encouraged me and induced me to compose two occasional ballads.0 ...
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... proposed to my brother that if he would give me weekly half the money he paid for my board, I would board myself. He instantly agreed to it, 'and 1 presently found that I could save half what he paid me. This was an additional fund for ...
... proposed to my brother that if he would give me weekly half the money he paid for my board, I would board myself. He instantly agreed to it, 'and 1 presently found that I could save half what he paid me. This was an additional fund for ...
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... proposed as things forgot." He also commended it to us " To apeak, though sure, with seeming diffidence." And he might have joined with this line that which he has coupled with another, I think, less properly — *• For want of modesty Is ...
... proposed as things forgot." He also commended it to us " To apeak, though sure, with seeming diffidence." And he might have joined with this line that which he has coupled with another, I think, less properly — *• For want of modesty Is ...
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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