Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin FranklinJ. M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1916 - 314 páginas |
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... English classic , this is the first occasion on which an edition1 containing the authentic text of this celebrated work has been given to the world by an English publish- ing house . This will seem strange news to most readers ; and ...
... English classic , this is the first occasion on which an edition1 containing the authentic text of this celebrated work has been given to the world by an English publish- ing house . This will seem strange news to most readers ; and ...
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... English - Mr. Benjamin Vaughan and Dr. Price , M. le Veillard , the Duc de la Rochefoucault , and others- to whom Franklin now showed the recovered manuscript . From this moment these were insistent in their demands upon him , their ...
... English - Mr. Benjamin Vaughan and Dr. Price , M. le Veillard , the Duc de la Rochefoucault , and others- to whom Franklin now showed the recovered manuscript . From this moment these were insistent in their demands upon him , their ...
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... English edition . . .. A few months will , I hope , satisfy your impatience and the public curiosity . " But after that there is silence . M. le Veillard , Gentilhomme ordinaire du Roi , died on the revolutionary scaffold in 1794. By ...
... English edition . . .. A few months will , I hope , satisfy your impatience and the public curiosity . " But after that there is silence . M. le Veillard , Gentilhomme ordinaire du Roi , died on the revolutionary scaffold in 1794. By ...
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... English and other languages , there were by the dozen presently ) , another explanation obtained credence , and was openly alleged . For example , in the Preface to a handsome edition published by Longmans in 1806 , Temple Franklin was ...
... English and other languages , there were by the dozen presently ) , another explanation obtained credence , and was openly alleged . For example , in the Preface to a handsome edition published by Longmans in 1806 , Temple Franklin was ...
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... English . These words need an explanation , for which we must turn back a little . I have already referred to the anxiety of the legatee in regard to the evil uses that might be made of the copy which had been given to M. le Veillard in ...
... English . These words need an explanation , for which we must turn back a little . I have already referred to the anxiety of the legatee in regard to the evil uses that might be made of the copy which had been given to M. le Veillard in ...
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