Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin FranklinJ. M. Dent & Company, 1910 - 314 páginas |
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... never long intermitted , he was dragged again into the conflict and toil of public life ; so that for three years his European friends , ceaselessly importuning him in the same old cause , got little comfort in return except his ...
... never long intermitted , he was dragged again into the conflict and toil of public life ; so that for three years his European friends , ceaselessly importuning him in the same old cause , got little comfort in return except his ...
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... never had the least suspicion of his integrity , but am to this day de- cidedly of opinion that he was in all his conduct a perfectly honest man ; and methinks my testimony in his favour ought to have the more weight , as we had no ...
... never had the least suspicion of his integrity , but am to this day de- cidedly of opinion that he was in all his conduct a perfectly honest man ; and methinks my testimony in his favour ought to have the more weight , as we had no ...
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... never to ask for an office , and never to refuse one when offer'd to him . " I approve , ” says I , " of his rule , and will practice it with a small addition ; I shall never ask , never refuse , nor ever resign an office . If they will ...
... never to ask for an office , and never to refuse one when offer'd to him . " I approve , ” says I , " of his rule , and will practice it with a small addition ; I shall never ask , never refuse , nor ever resign an office . If they will ...
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