The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinCassell and Company, 1897 - 192 páginas |
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... letter to his son , the Governor of New Jersey , in 1771 , when he was sixty - five years old , and holiday - guest in Hampshire , at the house of his friend , Dr. Jonathan Shipley , Bishop of St. Asaph's . He had brought the account ...
... letter to his son , the Governor of New Jersey , in 1771 , when he was sixty - five years old , and holiday - guest in Hampshire , at the house of his friend , Dr. Jonathan Shipley , Bishop of St. Asaph's . He had brought the account ...
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... letters , to set up his business in Boston . I liked it much better than that of my father , but still had a hankering for the sea . To prevent the apprehended effect of such an inclination , my father was impatient to have me bound to ...
... letters , to set up his business in Boston . I liked it much better than that of my father , but still had a hankering for the sea . To prevent the apprehended effect of such an inclination , my father was impatient to have me bound to ...
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... letters on a side had passed , when my father happened to find my papers , and read them . Without entering into the subject in dispute , he took occasion to talk to me about my manner of writing ; observed that though I had the ...
... letters on a side had passed , when my father happened to find my papers , and read them . Without entering into the subject in dispute , he took occasion to talk to me about my manner of writing ; observed that though I had the ...
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... Letter . I remember his being dis- suaded by some of his friends from the undertaking , as not likely to succeed , one newspaper being in their judgment enough for America . At this time , 1771 , there are not less than five - and ...
... Letter . I remember his being dis- suaded by some of his friends from the undertaking , as not likely to succeed , one newspaper being in their judgment enough for America . At this time , 1771 , there are not less than five - and ...
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... letters , and was ingenious , but he was an infidel , and wickedly un- dertook , some years after , to turn the Bible into doggrel verse , as Cotton had formerly done with Virgil . By this means he set many facts in a ridiculous light ...
... letters , and was ingenious , but he was an infidel , and wickedly un- dertook , some years after , to turn the Bible into doggrel verse , as Cotton had formerly done with Virgil . By this means he set many facts in a ridiculous light ...
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