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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... lived in a cen- tury notable for the rapid evolution of scientific and political thought and activity , yet no less a keen judge and critic than Lord Jeffrey , the famous editor of the Edinburgh Review , a cen- tury ago said that " in ...
... lived in a cen- tury notable for the rapid evolution of scientific and political thought and activity , yet no less a keen judge and critic than Lord Jeffrey , the famous editor of the Edinburgh Review , a cen- tury ago said that " in ...
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... lived in the same village , Ecton , in Northamptonshire , ' for three hundred years , and how much longer he knew not ( perhaps from the time when the name of Franklin , that before was the name of an order of people , was as- sumed by ...
... lived in the same village , Ecton , in Northamptonshire , ' for three hundred years , and how much longer he knew not ( perhaps from the time when the name of Franklin , that before was the name of an order of people , was as- sumed by ...
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... lived at Ecton till he grew too old to follow business longer , when he went to live with his son John , a dyer at Banbury , in Oxfordshire , with whom my father served an apprenticeship . There my grandfather died and lies buried . We ...
... lived at Ecton till he grew too old to follow business longer , when he went to live with his son John , a dyer at Banbury , in Oxfordshire , with whom my father served an apprenticeship . There my grandfather died and lies buried . We ...
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... lived in the house with us some years . He lived 1 January 17 , new style . This change in the calendar was made in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII , and adopted in England in 1752. Every year whose number in the common reckoning since Christ ...
... lived in the house with us some years . He lived 1 January 17 , new style . This change in the calendar was made in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII , and adopted in England in 1752. Every year whose number in the common reckoning since Christ ...
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... lived lovingly together in wedlock fifty - five years . Without an estate , or any gainful employment , By constant labor and industry , with God's blessing , They maintained a large family comfortably , and brought up thirteen children ...
... lived lovingly together in wedlock fifty - five years . Without an estate , or any gainful employment , By constant labor and industry , with God's blessing , They maintained a large family comfortably , and brought up thirteen children ...
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