| Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 426 páginas
...whose friends would compel me to marry her, and therefore I could not appear or come away publicly. So I sold some of my books to raise a little money,...wind, in three days I found myself in New York, near 300 miles from home, a boy of but 17,* without the least recommendation to, or knowledge of any person... | |
| 1871 - 784 páginas
...his books he raised a little money, wherewith to pay his passage on a sloop to New York. He says : " I found myself in New York, near three hundred miles from home, a boy of but seven teen, without the least recommendation to, or knowledge of, any person in the place, and with... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 602 páginas
...whose friends would compel me to marry her, and therefore I could not appear or come away publicly. So I sold some of my books to raise a little money,...wind, in three days I found myself in New York, near 300 miles from home, a boy of but 17,* without the least recommendation to, or knowledge of any person... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 812 páginas
...whose friends would compel me to marry her, and therefore I could not appear or come away publicly. So I sold some of my books to raise a little money,...wind, in three days I found myself in New York, near 300 miles from home, a boy of but 17,* without the least recommendation to, or knowledge of any person... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1886 - 256 páginas
...passage, under the notion of my being a young acquaintance of his [that had gotten himself into trouble]. So I sold some of my books to raise a little money,...wind, in three days I found myself in New York, near 300 miles from home, a boy of but 17, without the least recommendation to, or knowledge of, any person... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 332 páginas
...acquaintance of his that had got into trouble, and therefore I could not appear or come away publicly. So I sold some of my books to raise a little money,...on board privately, and, as we had a fair wind, in threedays I found myself in New York, near 300 miles from home, a boy of but seventeen (October, 1723)... | |
| Mara Louise Pratt Chadwick - 1889 - 168 páginas
...himself: — "My friend Collins agreed with the captain of a New my books to raise a little money, and as we had a fair wind, in three days I found myself...from home, a boy of but seventeen, without the least knowledge of any person in the place, and with very little money in my pocket. "I offered my .service... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1890 - 450 páginas
...whose friends would compel mo to marry her, and therefore I could not appear or come away publicly. So I sold some of my books to raise a little money,...wind, in three days I found myself in New York, near 300 miles from home, a boy of but 17, without the least recommendation to, or knowledge of, any person... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1892 - 202 páginas
...acquaintance of his, that had got [into trouble], and therefore I could not appear or come away publicly. So I sold some of my books to raise a little money,...wind, in three days I found myself in New York, near 800 miles from home, a boy of but 17, without the least recommendation to, or knowledge of any person... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, Julian Willis Abernethy - 1892 - 200 páginas
...acquaintance of his, that had got [into trouble], and therefore I could not appear or come away publicly. So I sold some of my books to raise a little money, wastaken on board privately, and as we had a fair wind, in three days I found myself in New York, near... | |
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