Memoirs of the Life & Writings of Benjamin FranklinJ.M. Dent, 1927 - 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 been made good . The only piece of posi- tive evidence in favour of the idea is this : that Jefferson speaks of having read a certain passage in the MS . of Franklin's account of the Secret Negotiations carried on during the ...
... never been made good . The only piece of posi- tive evidence in favour of the idea is this : that Jefferson speaks of having read a certain passage in the MS . of Franklin's account of the Secret Negotiations carried on during the ...
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... never practising it , I have now forgot it . I was named after this uncle , there being a parti- cular affection between him and my father . He was very pious , a great attender of sermons of the best preachers , which he took down in ...
... never practising it , I have now forgot it . I was named after this uncle , there being a parti- cular affection between him and my father . He was very pious , a great attender of sermons of the best preachers , which he took down in ...
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... never employed , the numerous family he had to educate and the straitness of his circumstances keep- ing him close to his trade ; but I remember well his being frequently visited by leading people , who consulted him for his opinion in ...
... never employed , the numerous family he had to educate and the straitness of his circumstances keep- ing him close to his trade ; but I remember well his being frequently visited by leading people , who consulted him for his opinion in ...
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... never knew either my father or mother to have any sickness but that of which they dy'd , he at 89 , and she at 85 years of age . They lie buried together at Boston , where I some years since placed a marble over their grave , with this ...
... never knew either my father or mother to have any sickness but that of which they dy'd , he at 89 , and she at 85 years of age . They lie buried together at Boston , where I some years since placed a marble over their grave , with this ...
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