AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN1901 |
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... writers at home, and the colonies were fairly content in the new world. There were but ten of them and their combined population did not reach four hundred thousand ... writing of this kind than that of the younger Franklin. wi INTRODUCTION.
... writers at home, and the colonies were fairly content in the new world. There were but ten of them and their combined population did not reach four hundred thousand ... writing of this kind than that of the younger Franklin. wi INTRODUCTION.
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... writer would have ventured upon larger enterprises of the kind if his brother had not assured him that verse-writers were generally beggars. Escaping this peril Franklin devoted himself to prose, writing with an instinctive conviction ...
... writer would have ventured upon larger enterprises of the kind if his brother had not assured him that verse-writers were generally beggars. Escaping this peril Franklin devoted himself to prose, writing with an instinctive conviction ...
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... writer, under the wise, urbane, and captivating teaching of one of the masters of English writing. His use of the Spectator was so characteristic and of such great importance in his education as a writer that his own account of it must ...
... writer, under the wise, urbane, and captivating teaching of one of the masters of English writing. His use of the Spectator was so characteristic and of such great importance in his education as a writer that his own account of it must ...
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... writing ; he mastered arithmetic, studied navigation and geometry, read Locke's On the Human Un- derttanding, devoured Xenophon's Memorabilia, and promptly adopted the Socratic method of discussion ; came under the influence of Anthony ...
... writing ; he mastered arithmetic, studied navigation and geometry, read Locke's On the Human Un- derttanding, devoured Xenophon's Memorabilia, and promptly adopted the Socratic method of discussion ; came under the influence of Anthony ...
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At the age of fifteen Franklin was writing for the New England Courant, which his brother had launched upon the untried sea of journalism. It had had three predecessors in the new world : the Boston News- Letter, the Boston Gazette, and ...
At the age of fifteen Franklin was writing for the New England Courant, which his brother had launched upon the untried sea of journalism. It had had three predecessors in the new world : the Boston News- Letter, the Boston Gazette, and ...
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