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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... gave place to the more elegant and artificial language of Samuel Johnson , who set the standard for prose writing from 1745 onward . This century saw the be- ginnings of the modern novel , in Fielding's Tom Jones , Richardson's Clarissa ...
... gave place to the more elegant and artificial language of Samuel Johnson , who set the standard for prose writing from 1745 onward . This century saw the be- ginnings of the modern novel , in Fielding's Tom Jones , Richardson's Clarissa ...
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... , the great British historians , who were contemporaries of Franklin , express in their autobiographies the same feeling about the propriety of just self - praise . and gave them success . My belief of this in- FRANKLIN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY 5.
... , the great British historians , who were contemporaries of Franklin , express in their autobiographies the same feeling about the propriety of just self - praise . and gave them success . My belief of this in- FRANKLIN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY 5.
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Benjamin Franklin Frank Woodworth Pine. and gave them success . My belief of this in- duces me to hope , though I must not presume , that the same goodness will still be exercised toward me , in continuing that happiness , or enabling me ...
Benjamin Franklin Frank Woodworth Pine. and gave them success . My belief of this in- duces me to hope , though I must not presume , that the same goodness will still be exercised toward me , in continuing that happiness , or enabling me ...
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... gave to his friends in my hearing - altered his first intention , took me from the grammar - school , and sent me to a school for writing and arithmetic , kept by a then famous man , Mr. George Brownell , very successful in his ...
... gave to his friends in my hearing - altered his first intention , took me from the grammar - school , and sent me to a school for writing and arithmetic , kept by a then famous man , Mr. George Brownell , very successful in his ...
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... book of DeFoe's , called an Essay on Projects , and another of Dr. Mather's , called Essays to do Good , which perhaps gave me 1 Small books , sold by chapmen or peddlers . a turn of thinking that had an influence on some. 21 III.
... book of DeFoe's , called an Essay on Projects , and another of Dr. Mather's , called Essays to do Good , which perhaps gave me 1 Small books , sold by chapmen or peddlers . a turn of thinking that had an influence on some. 21 III.
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