The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinDonnelley & Sons, 1915 - 264 páginas |
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... affairs from 1641 to 1717. Many of the volumes are wanting , as appears by the numbering , but there still remain eight volumes in folio and twenty - four in quarto and in octavo . A dealer in old books met with them , and knowing me by ...
... affairs from 1641 to 1717. Many of the volumes are wanting , as appears by the numbering , but there still remain eight volumes in folio and twenty - four in quarto and in octavo . A dealer in old books met with them , and knowing me by ...
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... affairs . In the latter , indeed , he was never employed , the numerous family he had to educate and the straitness of his circumstances keeping him close to his trade . But I remember well his being frequently visited by leading people ...
... affairs . In the latter , indeed , he was never employed , the numerous family he had to educate and the straitness of his circumstances keeping him close to his trade . But I remember well his being frequently visited by leading people ...
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... affairs when any difficulty occurred , and frequently chosen an arbitrator between contending parties . At his table he liked to have , as often as he could , some sensible friend or neighbor to converse with , and always took care to ...
... affairs when any difficulty occurred , and frequently chosen an arbitrator between contending parties . At his table he liked to have , as often as he could , some sensible friend or neighbor to converse with , and always took care to ...
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... affair showed that my father was not much out in his judgment when he supposed me too young to manage business of impor- tance . But Sir William , on reading his letter , said he was too prudent . There was great difference in persons ...
... affair showed that my father was not much out in his judgment when he supposed me too young to manage business of impor- tance . But Sir William , on reading his letter , said he was too prudent . There was great difference in persons ...
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... affair to him . He let me into Keith's character ; told me there was not the least probability that he had written any letters for me ; that no one who knew him had the small- est dependence on him ; and he laught at the notion of the ...
... affair to him . He let me into Keith's character ; told me there was not the least probability that he had written any letters for me ; that no one who knew him had the small- est dependence on him ; and he laught at the notion of the ...
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