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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... wrote The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Hume his History of Eng- land , and Adam Smith the Wealth of Nations . In the simplicity and vigor of his style Frank- lin more nearly resembles the earlier group of writers . In his ...
... wrote The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Hume his History of Eng- land , and Adam Smith the Wealth of Nations . In the simplicity and vigor of his style Frank- lin more nearly resembles the earlier group of writers . In his ...
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... wrote no work of the imagination . He developed only incidentally a style in many respects as remarkable as that of his English contemporaries . He wrote the best autobiogra- phy in existence , one of the most widely known collections ...
... wrote no work of the imagination . He developed only incidentally a style in many respects as remarkable as that of his English contemporaries . He wrote the best autobiogra- phy in existence , one of the most widely known collections ...
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... wrote sundry small occasional pieces , but only one of them was printed , which I saw now many years since . It was written in 1675 , in the home - spun verse of that time and people , and addressed to those then concerned in the gov ...
... wrote sundry small occasional pieces , but only one of them was printed , which I saw now many years since . It was written in 1675 , in the home - spun verse of that time and people , and addressed to those then concerned in the gov ...
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... rather lucky in my judges , and that perhaps they were not really so very good ones as I then esteem'd them . Encourag'd , however , by this , I wrote and 1 conveyed in the same way to the press several FRANKLIN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY 35.
... rather lucky in my judges , and that perhaps they were not really so very good ones as I then esteem'd them . Encourag'd , however , by this , I wrote and 1 conveyed in the same way to the press several FRANKLIN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY 35.
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... the father of the English novel , wrote Pamela , Clarissa Harlowe , and the History of Sir Charles Grandi- son , novels published in the form of letters . When we drew near the island , we found it 42 FRANKLIN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
... the father of the English novel , wrote Pamela , Clarissa Harlowe , and the History of Sir Charles Grandi- son , novels published in the form of letters . When we drew near the island , we found it 42 FRANKLIN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
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