The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinDonnelley & Sons, 1915 - 264 páginas |
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... answered , and I replied . Three or four letters of a side had passed , when my father happened to find my papers and read them . Without entering into the discussion , he took occasion to talk to me about the manner of my writing ...
... answered , and I replied . Three or four letters of a side had passed , when my father happened to find my papers and read them . Without entering into the discussion , he took occasion to talk to me about the manner of my writing ...
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... answer to his letter , thanked him for his advice , but stated my reasons for quitting Boston fully and in such a light as to con- vince him I was not so wrong as he had appre- hended . Sir William Keith , governor of the prov- ince ...
... answer to his letter , thanked him for his advice , but stated my reasons for quitting Boston fully and in such a light as to con- vince him I was not so wrong as he had appre- hended . Sir William Keith , governor of the prov- ince ...
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... answer me the most common question without asking first , " What do you intend to infer from that ? ” However , it gave him so high an opinion of my abilities in the confuting way that he seri- ously proposed my being his colleague in a ...
... answer me the most common question without asking first , " What do you intend to infer from that ? ” However , it gave him so high an opinion of my abilities in the confuting way that he seri- ously proposed my being his colleague in a ...
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... answered in the affirmative , he said he was sorry for me , because it was an expensive undertaking , and the expense would be lost ; for Philadelphia was a sinking place , the people already half bankrupts , or near be- ing so ; all ...
... answered in the affirmative , he said he was sorry for me , because it was an expensive undertaking , and the expense would be lost ; for Philadelphia was a sinking place , the people already half bankrupts , or near be- ing so ; all ...
Página 98
... answer it , their oppo- sition slackened , and the point was carried by a majority in the House . My friends there , who conceived I had been of some service , thought fit to reward me by employing me in printing the money — a very ...
... answer it , their oppo- sition slackened , and the point was carried by a majority in the House . My friends there , who conceived I had been of some service , thought fit to reward me by employing me in printing the money — a very ...
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