The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinDonnelley & Sons, 1915 - 264 páginas |
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Página 83
... province . Several of them had been appointed by the Assembly a committee to attend the press and take care that no more bills were printed than the law directed . They were therefore , by turns , constantly with us , and generally he ...
... province . Several of them had been appointed by the Assembly a committee to attend the press and take care that no more bills were printed than the law directed . They were therefore , by turns , constantly with us , and generally he ...
Página 84
... province , Isaac Pearson , Joseph Cooper , and several of the Smiths , members of Assembly , and Isaac Decow , the surveyor - general . The latter was a shrewd , sagacious old man , who told me that he began for himself , when young ...
... province , Isaac Pearson , Joseph Cooper , and several of the Smiths , members of Assembly , and Isaac Decow , the surveyor - general . The latter was a shrewd , sagacious old man , who told me that he began for himself , when young ...
Página 90
... provincial judges . Our friendship continued without interruption to his death , upward of forty years ; and the club continued almost as long , and was the best school of philosophy , morality , and politics that then existed in the ...
... provincial judges . Our friendship continued without interruption to his death , upward of forty years ; and the club continued almost as long , and was the best school of philosophy , morality , and politics that then existed in the ...
Página 93
... province - a better type , and better printed ; but some spirited remarks of my writing , on the dispute then going on between Governor Burnet and the Massachusetts Assembly , struck the prin- cipal people , occasioned the paper and the ...
... province - a better type , and better printed ; but some spirited remarks of my writing , on the dispute then going on between Governor Burnet and the Massachusetts Assembly , struck the prin- cipal people , occasioned the paper and the ...
Página 97
... province , and that soon to be sunk . The wealthy in- habitants opposed any addition , being against all paper currency , from an apprehension that it would depreciate , as it had done in New England , to the prejudice of all creditors ...
... province , and that soon to be sunk . The wealthy in- habitants opposed any addition , being against all paper currency , from an apprehension that it would depreciate , as it had done in New England , to the prejudice of all creditors ...
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