Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin, Volumen1H. Colburn, 1818 - 541 páginas |
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... friends . Upon the editor , therefore , has devolved the task of filling up the chasms in the best manner that he could from the letters and other papers of his re- vered relative ; and where these documents failed in giving adequate ...
... friends . Upon the editor , therefore , has devolved the task of filling up the chasms in the best manner that he could from the letters and other papers of his re- vered relative ; and where these documents failed in giving adequate ...
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... friends . He had invented a short - hand of his own , which he taught me , but not having practised it , I have now forgotten it . He was very pious , and an assiduous attendant at the sermons of the best preachers , which he re- duced ...
... friends . He had invented a short - hand of his own , which he taught me , but not having practised it , I have now forgotten it . He was very pious , and an assiduous attendant at the sermons of the best preachers , which he re- duced ...
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... friend It is Peter Folgier . ” My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades . I was put to the ... friends , that I should certainly make a In the island of Nantucket . good scholar , encouraged him in this purpose ...
... friend It is Peter Folgier . ” My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades . I was put to the ... friends , that I should certainly make a In the island of Nantucket . good scholar , encouraged him in this purpose ...
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... friends in my presence , the little encouragement that line of life afforded to those educated for it ; he gave up his first intentions , took me from the grammar- school , and sent me to a school for writing and arithmetic , kept by a ...
... friends in my presence , the little encouragement that line of life afforded to those educated for it ; he gave up his first intentions , took me from the grammar- school , and sent me to a school for writing and arithmetic , kept by a ...
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... friends from the undertaking , as not likely to succeed , one newspaper being in their judgment enough for America . At this time , 1771 , there are not less than five and twenty . He went on , how- ever , with the undertaking ; I was ...
... friends from the undertaking , as not likely to succeed , one newspaper being in their judgment enough for America . At this time , 1771 , there are not less than five and twenty . He went on , how- ever , with the undertaking ; I was ...
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