Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinH. Holt, 1916 - 346 páginas The autobiography the American philosopher, statesman, and scientist who relates his own rise from obscurity and poverty to eminence and wealth. |
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... Assembly . He was taken up , censur'd , and imprison'd for a month , by the speaker's warrant , I suppose , because he would not discover his author . I too was taken up and examin'd before the council ; but , tho ' I did not give them ...
... Assembly . He was taken up , censur'd , and imprison'd for a month , by the speaker's warrant , I suppose , because he would not discover his author . I too was taken up and examin'd before the council ; but , tho ' I did not give them ...
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... Assembly , that might fall on him as still printing it by his apprentice , the contriv- ance was that my old indenture should be re- turn'd to me , with a full discharge on the back of it , to be shown on occasion , but to secure to him ...
... Assembly , that might fall on him as still printing it by his apprentice , the contriv- ance was that my old indenture should be re- turn'd to me , with a full discharge on the back of it , to be shown on occasion , but to secure to him ...
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... Assembly in my brother's case , it was likely I might , if I stay'd , soon bring myself into scrapes ; and farther , that my indiscreet disputations about religion began to make me pointed at with horror by good people as an infidel or ...
... Assembly in my brother's case , it was likely I might , if I stay'd , soon bring myself into scrapes ; and farther , that my indiscreet disputations about religion began to make me pointed at with horror by good people as an infidel or ...
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... Assembly , and a pretty poet . Keimer made verses too , but very indif- ferently . He could not be said to write them , for his manner was to compose them in the types directly out of his head . So there being no copy , 1 but one pair ...
... Assembly , and a pretty poet . Keimer made verses too , but very indif- ferently . He could not be said to write them , for his manner was to compose them in the types directly out of his head . So there being no copy , 1 but one pair ...
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... Assembly , and Isaac Decow , the surveyor- general . The latter was a shrewd , sagacious old man , who told me that he began for him- self , when young , by wheeling clay for brick- . makers , learned to write after he was of FRANKLIN'S ...
... Assembly , and Isaac Decow , the surveyor- general . The latter was a shrewd , sagacious old man , who told me that he began for him- self , when young , by wheeling clay for brick- . makers , learned to write after he was of FRANKLIN'S ...
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