AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN1901 |
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... shilling in his pocket. It was on a Sunday morning in October, 1723. Franklin found employment as a 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 ...
... shilling in his pocket. It was on a Sunday morning in October, 1723. Franklin found employment as a 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 ...
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... shilling in copper coin, which I gave to the boatmen for my passage. At first they refused it, on account of my having rowed ; but I insisted on their taking it. Man is sometimes more generous when he has little money than when he has ...
... shilling in copper coin, which I gave to the boatmen for my passage. At first they refused it, on account of my having rowed ; but I insisted on their taking it. Man is sometimes more generous when he has little money than when he has ...
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... shillings and sixpence a week, as much as we could then afford. He found some relations, but they were poor and unable to assist him. He now let me know his intentions of remaining in London and that he never meant to return to ...
... shillings and sixpence a week, as much as we could then afford. He found some relations, but they were poor and unable to assist him. He now let me know his intentions of remaining in London and that he never meant to return to ...
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... with a pint of water it would give him more strength than a quart of beer. He drank on, however, ai>d had four or five shillings to pay out of his wages every Saturday night for that vile liquor, an expense I was free BENJAMIN FRANKLIN IS.
... with a pint of water it would give him more strength than a quart of beer. He drank on, however, ai>d had four or five shillings to pay out of his wages every Saturday night for that vile liquor, an expense I was free BENJAMIN FRANKLIN IS.
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... shillings, was demanded of me by the compositors. I thought it an imposition, as I had paid one to the pressman ; the master thought so too and forbade my paying it. I stood out two or three weeks, was accordingly considered as an ...
... shillings, was demanded of me by the compositors. I thought it an imposition, as I had paid one to the pressman ; the master thought so too and forbade my paying it. I stood out two or three weeks, was accordingly considered as an ...
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