Memoirs of the Life & Writings of Benjamin FranklinJ.M. Dent, 1927 - 314 páginas |
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... perhaps coarse . Where Franklin can talk of some one having got a naughty girl with child , " the young gentleman of a more modest age can but speak of having had an intrigue with a young woman of bad character . " Where Benjamin talks ...
... perhaps coarse . Where Franklin can talk of some one having got a naughty girl with child , " the young gentleman of a more modest age can but speak of having had an intrigue with a young woman of bad character . " Where Benjamin talks ...
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... perhaps no other book of its kind so insufficient - no other which gives , with all its appearance of unity and coherence , so fragmentary an impression of the whole man as he really was . This is not due merely to the fact that the ...
... perhaps no other book of its kind so insufficient - no other which gives , with all its appearance of unity and coherence , so fragmentary an impression of the whole man as he really was . This is not due merely to the fact that the ...
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... perhaps I shall a good deal gratify my own vanity . Indeed , I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words , " Without vanity I may say , " etc. , but some vain thing immediately followed . Most people dis- like vanity in others ...
... perhaps I shall a good deal gratify my own vanity . Indeed , I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words , " Without vanity I may say , " etc. , but some vain thing immediately followed . Most people dis- like vanity in others ...
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... ( perhaps from the time when the name of Franklin , that be- fore was the name of an order of people , was assumed by them as a surname when others took surnames all over the kingdom ) , on a freehold of about thirty acres , aided by the ...
... ( perhaps from the time when the name of Franklin , that be- fore was the name of an order of people , was assumed by them as a surname when others took surnames all over the kingdom ) , on a freehold of about thirty acres , aided by the ...
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... perhaps , for his station . There fell lately into my hands , in London , a collection he had made of all the prin- cipal pamphlets relating to public affairs , from 1641 to 1717 ; many of the volumes are wanting as appears by the ...
... perhaps , for his station . There fell lately into my hands , in London , a collection he had made of all the prin- cipal pamphlets relating to public affairs , from 1641 to 1717 ; many of the volumes are wanting as appears by the ...
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