AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN1901 |
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... certain extent withdrawn public attention from his extraordinary career and sensibly diminished nis reputation ; a process which has been aided by Franklin's lack of idealism in mind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 ...
... certain extent withdrawn public attention from his extraordinary career and sensibly diminished nis reputation ; a process which has been aided by Franklin's lack of idealism in mind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 ...
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... sensible friend or neighbor to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse which might tend to improve the minds of his children. By this means he turned our attention to what was good, just ...
... sensible friend or neighbor to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse which might tend to improve the minds of his children. By this means he turned our attention to what was good, just ...
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... sensible man, Mr. Matthew Adams, who had a pretty collection of books, frequented our printing-office, took notice of me, and invited me to see his library and very kindly proposed to loan me such books as I chose to read. I now took a ...
... sensible man, Mr. Matthew Adams, who had a pretty collection of books, frequented our printing-office, took notice of me, and invited me to see his library and very kindly proposed to loan me such books as I chose to read. I now took a ...
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... that I have been from time to time engaged in promoting. And as the chief ends of conversation are to inform or to be informed, to please or to persuade, I wish well-meaning and sensible men would 18 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF.
... that I have been from time to time engaged in promoting. And as the chief ends of conversation are to inform or to be informed, to please or to persuade, I wish well-meaning and sensible men would 18 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF.
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... 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 desire. Pope judiciously ...
... 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 desire. Pope judiciously ...
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