The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinDonnelley & Sons, 1915 - 264 páginas |
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... called " Editions de Luxe " -books printed in un- readable type , on hand - made paper , on hand- presses , and sold at prices prohibitory to all except the rich . Such books may have their places in the collection of the dilettante ...
... called " Editions de Luxe " -books printed in un- readable type , on hand - made paper , on hand- presses , and sold at prices prohibitory to all except the rich . Such books may have their places in the collection of the dilettante ...
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... called an " Essay on Projects , " and another of Dr. Mather's , called " Essays to do Good , " which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life . This bookish inclination ...
... called an " Essay on Projects , " and another of Dr. Mather's , called " Essays to do Good , " which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life . This bookish inclination ...
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... called " The Lighthouse Tragedy , " and contained an ac- count of the drowning of Captain Worthilake with his two daughters . The other was a sailor's song on the taking of Teach ( or Black- beard ) the pirate . They were wretched stuff ...
... called " The Lighthouse Tragedy , " and contained an ac- count of the drowning of Captain Worthilake with his two daughters . The other was a sailor's song on the taking of Teach ( or Black- beard ) the pirate . They were wretched stuff ...
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... called the " New England Courant . ” The only one before it was the Boston " News - Letter . " I remember his being dissuaded by some of his friends from the undertaking , as not likely to succeed , one newspaper being , in their ...
... called the " New England Courant . ” The only one before it was the Boston " News - Letter . " I remember his being dissuaded by some of his friends from the undertaking , as not likely to succeed , one newspaper being , in their ...
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... called in as usual . They read it , commented on it in my hearing , and I had the exquisite pleasure of finding it met with their approbation , and that , in their dif- ferent guesses at the author , none were named but men of some ...
... called in as usual . They read it , commented on it in my hearing , and I had the exquisite pleasure of finding it met with their approbation , and that , in their dif- ferent guesses at the author , none were named but men of some ...
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