Memoirs of the Life & Writings of Benjamin FranklinJ.M. Dent, 1927 - 314 páginas |
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... intention to bring out a complete edition of the Works and Correspondence at an early date . Nay more ; he came to England a few weeks later , expressly to arrange this publication . But then a wonderful thing occurred . Though still ...
... intention to bring out a complete edition of the Works and Correspondence at an early date . Nay more ; he came to England a few weeks later , expressly to arrange this publication . But then a wonderful thing occurred . Though still ...
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... intention , took me from the grammar - school , and sent me to a school for writing and arithmetic , kept by a then famous man , Mr George Brownell , very successful in his pro- fession generally , and that by mild , encouraging methods ...
... intention , took me from the grammar - school , and sent me to a school for writing and arithmetic , kept by a then famous man , Mr George Brownell , very successful in his pro- fession generally , and that by mild , encouraging methods ...
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... intention of making the experiment was fresh and warm in my mind . My father at last fixed upon the cutler's trade , and my uncle Benjamin's son Samuel , who was bred to that business in London , being about that time established in ...
... intention of making the experiment was fresh and warm in my mind . My father at last fixed upon the cutler's trade , and my uncle Benjamin's son Samuel , who was bred to that business in London , being about that time established in ...
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... intention was to be kept a secret , and I went on working with Keimer as usual , the governor sending for me now and then to dine with him , a very great honor I thought it , and conversing with me in the most affable , familiar , and ...
... intention was to be kept a secret , and I went on working with Keimer as usual , the governor sending for me now and then to dine with him , a very great honor I thought it , and conversing with me in the most affable , familiar , and ...
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... intention of returning to it ; and , one of them asking what kind of money we had there , I produc'd a handful of silver , and spread it before them , which was a kind of raree- show they had not been us'd to , paper being the money of ...
... intention of returning to it ; and , one of them asking what kind of money we had there , I produc'd a handful of silver , and spread it before them , which was a kind of raree- show they had not been us'd to , paper being the money of ...
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