Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin FranklinJ. M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1916 - 314 páginas |
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... seem strange news to most readers ; and indeed there is a long and interesting story to tell in connection with it . That story fills very pleasantly some eighty prefatory pages in Mr. Bigelow's Life of Franklin ; but here our ...
... seem strange news to most readers ; and indeed there is a long and interesting story to tell in connection with it . That story fills very pleasantly some eighty prefatory pages in Mr. Bigelow's Life of Franklin ; but here our ...
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... is to have more . And even of its history as a manu- script , we shall find , there is something further to tell when the last word seems to have been said . Seldom has an unpublished book been expected with so intense ix INTRODUCTION.
... is to have more . And even of its history as a manu- script , we shall find , there is something further to tell when the last word seems to have been said . Seldom has an unpublished book been expected with so intense ix INTRODUCTION.
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... seems to have been a man worth living to know . Him he invested with the powers of an Envoy- plenipotentiary , to ... seem to me beyond their value to an American . " To a good American , certainly not ; though doubtless there are ...
... seems to have been a man worth living to know . Him he invested with the powers of an Envoy- plenipotentiary , to ... seem to me beyond their value to an American . " To a good American , certainly not ; though doubtless there are ...
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... seems to be a recollection of that life , and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing . Hereby , too , I shall indulge the inclination so natural in old men , to be talking of themselves and their ...
... seems to be a recollection of that life , and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing . Hereby , too , I shall indulge the inclination so natural in old men , to be talking of themselves and their ...
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... seems my uncle must have left them here when he went to America , which was above fifty years since . There are many of his notes in the margins . This obscure family of ours was early in the Re- formation , and continued Protestants ...
... seems my uncle must have left them here when he went to America , which was above fifty years since . There are many of his notes in the margins . This obscure family of ours was early in the Re- formation , and continued Protestants ...
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