The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinDonnelley & Sons, 1915 - 264 páginas |
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... sometimes to say that were it offered to my choice , I should have no objec- tion to a repetition of the same life from its beginning , only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition , to correct some faults of the first ...
... sometimes to say that were it offered to my choice , I should have no objec- tion to a repetition of the same life from its beginning , only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition , to correct some faults of the first ...
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... sometimes buying of him , he brought them to me . It seems my uncle must have left them here when he went to America , which was above fifty years since . There are many of his notes in the margins . This obscure family of ours was ...
... sometimes buying of him , he brought them to me . It seems my uncle must have left them here when he went to America , which was above fifty years since . There are many of his notes in the margins . This obscure family of ours was ...
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... sometimes did in an even- ing after the business of the day was over , it was extremely agreeable to hear . He had a mechanical genius , too , and , on occasion , was very handy in the use of other tradesmen's tools ; but his great ...
... sometimes did in an even- ing after the business of the day was over , it was extremely agreeable to hear . He had a mechanical genius , too , and , on occasion , was very handy in the use of other tradesmen's tools ; but his great ...
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... sometimes very unhappy for want of a suitable gratifica- tion of their more delicate , because better in- structed , tastes and appetites . My mother had likewise an excellent consti- tution . She suckled all her ten children . I never ...
... sometimes very unhappy for want of a suitable gratifica- tion of their more delicate , because better in- structed , tastes and appetites . My mother had likewise an excellent consti- tution . She suckled all her ten children . I never ...
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... sometimes took me to walk with him , and see joiners , bricklayers , turners , braziers , etc. , at their work , that he might observe my inclination , and endeavor to fix it on some trade or other on land . It has ever since been a ...
... sometimes took me to walk with him , and see joiners , bricklayers , turners , braziers , etc. , at their work , that he might observe my inclination , and endeavor to fix it on some trade or other on land . It has ever since been a ...
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