The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinDonnelley & Sons, 1915 - 264 páginas |
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... pieces addressed to his friends and relations , of which the following , sent to me , is a speci- men . He had formed a shorthand of his own , which he taught me , but , never practising it , I have now forgot it . I was named after ...
... pieces addressed to his friends and relations , of which the following , sent to me , is a speci- men . He had formed a shorthand of his own , which he taught me , but , never practising it , I have now forgot it . I was named after ...
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... pieces , but only one of them was printed , which I saw now many years since . It was written in 1675 , in the homespun verse of that time and people , and addressed to those then concerned in the government there . It was in favor of ...
... pieces , but only one of them was printed , which I saw now many years since . It was written in 1675 , in the homespun verse of that time and people , and addressed to those then concerned in the government there . It was in favor of ...
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... pieces . My brother , thinking it might turn to account , encouraged me , and put me on composing occasional ballads . One was called " The Lighthouse Tragedy , " and contained an ac- count of the drowning of Captain Worthilake with his ...
... pieces . My brother , thinking it might turn to account , encouraged me , and put me on composing occasional ballads . One was called " The Lighthouse Tragedy , " and contained an ac- count of the drowning of Captain Worthilake with his ...
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... pieces for this paper , which gained it credit and made it more in demand , and these gentlemen often visited us . Hearing their conversations , and their accounts of the ap- probation their papers were received with , I was excited to ...
... pieces for this paper , which gained it credit and made it more in demand , and these gentlemen often visited us . Hearing their conversations , and their accounts of the ap- probation their papers were received with , I was excited to ...
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... pieces in our newspaper on some political point , which I have now forgotten , gave offense to the Assembly . He was taken up , censured , and imprisoned for a month , by the speaker's warrant , I suppose , because he would not discover ...
... pieces in our newspaper on some political point , which I have now forgotten , gave offense to the Assembly . He was taken up , censured , and imprisoned for a month , by the speaker's warrant , I suppose , because he would not discover ...
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