The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinDonnelley & Sons, 1915 - 264 páginas |
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... improving my lan- guage , I met with an English grammar ( I think it was Greenwood's ) , at the end of which there were two little sketches of the arts of rhetoric and logic , the latter finishing with a + specimen of a dispute in the ...
... improving my lan- guage , I met with an English grammar ( I think it was Greenwood's ) , at the end of which there were two little sketches of the arts of rhetoric and logic , the latter finishing with a + specimen of a dispute in the ...
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... improved the original . In his common con- versation he seems to have no choice of words ; he hesitates and blunders ; and yet , good God ! how he writes ! " When we next met , Ralph discovered the trick we had played him , and Osborne ...
... improved the original . In his common con- versation he seems to have no choice of words ; he hesitates and blunders ; and yet , good God ! how he writes ! " When we next met , Ralph discovered the trick we had played him , and Osborne ...
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... improved my fortune ; but I had picked up some very ingenious acquaintance , whose conversation was of great advantage to me , and I had read considerably . We sailed from Gravesend on the 23d of July , 1726. For the incidents of the ...
... improved my fortune ; but I had picked up some very ingenious acquaintance , whose conversation was of great advantage to me , and I had read considerably . We sailed from Gravesend on the 23d of July , 1726. For the incidents of the ...
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... shilling every three months , as they would deserve by improving in their business ; and the expectation of these high wages , to come on hereafter , was what he had drawn them in with . Meredith was to 77 Benjamin Franklin.
... shilling every three months , as they would deserve by improving in their business ; and the expectation of these high wages , to come on hereafter , was what he had drawn them in with . Meredith was to 77 Benjamin Franklin.
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... improved in the business ; and when Keimer paid my second quarter's wages , he let me know that he felt them too heavy , and thought I should make an abatement . He grew by degrees less civil , put on more of the master , fre- quently ...
... improved in the business ; and when Keimer paid my second quarter's wages , he let me know that he felt them too heavy , and thought I should make an abatement . He grew by degrees less civil , put on more of the master , fre- quently ...
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