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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... soon interrupted and was not re- sumed until 1788 , when he was at home in Phila- delphia . He was now old , infirm , and suffering , and was still engaged in public service . Under these discouraging conditions the work pro- gressed ...
... soon interrupted and was not re- sumed until 1788 , when he was at home in Phila- delphia . He was now old , infirm , and suffering , and was still engaged in public service . Under these discouraging conditions the work pro- gressed ...
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... soon , but I failed in the arithmetic , and made no progress in it . At ten years old I was taken home to assist my father in his business , which was that of a tallow - chandler and sope - boiler ; a business he was not bred to , but ...
... soon , but I failed in the arithmetic , and made no progress in it . At ten years old I was taken home to assist my father in his business , which was that of a tallow - chandler and sope - boiler ; a business he was not bred to , but ...
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... soon and clean . Often I sat up in my room reading the greatest part of the night , when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning , lest it should be missed or wanted . And after some time an ...
... soon and clean . Often I sat up in my room reading the greatest part of the night , when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning , lest it should be missed or wanted . And after some time an ...
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... soon after I procur'd Xenophon's Mem- orable Things of Socrates , wherein there are many instances of the same method . I was charm'd with it , adopted it , dropt my abrupt contradiction and positive argumentation , and put on the ...
... soon after I procur'd Xenophon's Mem- orable Things of Socrates , wherein there are many instances of the same method . I was charm'd with it , adopted it , dropt my abrupt contradiction and positive argumentation , and put on the ...
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... 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 atheist . I determin'd on the point , but my father now siding with my ...
... 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 atheist . I determin'd on the point , but my father now siding with my ...
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