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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... building . The thing that makes Franklin's Auto- biography different from every other life story of a great and successful man is just this human aspect of the account . Franklin told the story of his life , as he himself says , for the ...
... building . The thing that makes Franklin's Auto- biography different from every other life story of a great and successful man is just this human aspect of the account . Franklin told the story of his life , as he himself says , for the ...
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... build a wharf there fit for us to stand upon , and I showed my comrades a large heap of stones , which were intended for a new house near the marsh , and which would very well suit our purpose . Ac- cordingly , in the evening , when the ...
... build a wharf there fit for us to stand upon , and I showed my comrades a large heap of stones , which were intended for a new house near the marsh , and which would very well suit our purpose . Ac- cordingly , in the evening , when the ...
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... buildings and the rise of rents , being to his certain knowledge fallacious ; for they were , in fact , among the things that would soon ruin us . And he gave me such a detail of misfor- tunes now existing , or that were soon to exist ...
... buildings and the rise of rents , being to his certain knowledge fallacious ; for they were , in fact , among the things that would soon ruin us . And he gave me such a detail of misfor- tunes now existing , or that were soon to exist ...
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... building : whereas I remembered well , that when I first walk'd about the streets of Philadelphia , eat- ing my roll , I saw most of the houses in Wal- nut Street , between Second and Front streets , 1 Recalled to be redeemed . 2 This ...
... building : whereas I remembered well , that when I first walk'd about the streets of Philadelphia , eat- ing my roll , I saw most of the houses in Wal- nut Street , between Second and Front streets , 1 Recalled to be redeemed . 2 This ...
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... in 1739 to eighty thousand pounds , since which it arose during war to upwards of three hundred and fifty thousand pounds , trade , building , and inhabi- tants all the while increasing , tho ' I now FRANKLIN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY 127.
... in 1739 to eighty thousand pounds , since which it arose during war to upwards of three hundred and fifty thousand pounds , trade , building , and inhabi- tants all the while increasing , tho ' I now FRANKLIN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY 127.
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