AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN1901 |
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... received attention throughout the scientific world, was translated in several languages, and won him an election to the Royal Society of London, and, later, a medal. He had proved that lightning and electricity are identical. He devised ...
... received attention throughout the scientific world, was translated in several languages, and won him an election to the Royal Society of London, and, later, a medal. He had proved that lightning and electricity are identical. He devised ...
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... received. It is a piece of sincere and genuine literary work ; simple, honest, unaffected, and full of human interest. It is a classic, both in form and substance ; for it presents, with singular clearness and charm, one of the most ...
... received. It is a piece of sincere and genuine literary work ; simple, honest, unaffected, and full of human interest. It is a classic, both in form and substance ; for it presents, with singular clearness and charm, one of the most ...
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... received with, I was excited to try my hand among them. But being still a boy, and suspecting that my brother would object to printing anything of mine in his paper if he knew it to be mine, I contrived to disguise my hand, and writing ...
... received with, I was excited to try my hand among them. But being still a boy, and suspecting that my brother would object to printing anything of mine in his paper if he knew it to be mine, I contrived to disguise my hand, and writing ...
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... received me civilly, gave me a breakfast, but told me he did not at 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 ...
... received me civilly, gave me a breakfast, but told me he did not at 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 ...
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... received me not very frankly, looked me all over, and turned to his work again. The journeymen were inquisitive where I had been, what sort of a country it was, and how I liked it. I praised it much and the happy life I led in it ...
... received me not very frankly, looked me all over, and turned to his work again. The journeymen were inquisitive where I had been, what sort of a country it was, and how I liked it. I praised it much and the happy life I led in it ...
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