The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinMacmillan, 1901 - 249 páginas Charming self-portrait covers boyhood, work as a printer, political career, scientific experiments, much more. Its openness, honesty, and readable style have made the "Autobiography" one of the great classics of the genre. |
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... afterwards with the original , I discovered many faults and amended them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that , in certain particulars of small import , I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language , and ...
... afterwards with the original , I discovered many faults and amended them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that , in certain particulars of small import , I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language , and ...
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... afterward sold them to enable me to buy R. Burton's " Histori- cal Collections . " They were small chap - men's books , and cheap , forty volumes in all . My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity , most ...
... afterward sold them to enable me to buy R. Burton's " Histori- cal Collections . " They were small chap - men's books , and cheap , forty volumes in all . My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity , most ...
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... afterward found , a good deal of the knave in his composition . He did not like my lodging at Bradford's while I worked with him . He had a house , indeed , but without furniture , so he could not lodge me ; but he got me a lodging at ...
... afterward found , a good deal of the knave in his composition . He did not like my lodging at Bradford's while I worked with him . He had a house , indeed , but without furniture , so he could not lodge me ; but he got me a lodging at ...
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... afterward told me in Boston , but I knew as yet noth- ing of it ; when one day Keimer and I , being at work together near the window , we saw the governor and another gentleman ( who proved to be Colonel French , of Newcastle , in the ...
... afterward told me in Boston , but I knew as yet noth- ing of it ; when one day Keimer and I , being at work together near the window , we saw the governor and another gentleman ( who proved to be Colonel French , of Newcastle , in the ...
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... afterward occasioned me a good deal of uneasiness . 66 At Newport we took in a number of passengers , among whom were two young women traveling together and a sensible , matron - like Quaker lady , with her servants . I had shown an ...
... afterward occasioned me a good deal of uneasiness . 66 At Newport we took in a number of passengers , among whom were two young women traveling together and a sensible , matron - like Quaker lady , with her servants . I had shown an ...
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acquaintance advantage affairs afterward almanac appeared arrived Assembly attended began BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Boston brother brought called captain colonies continued conversation dear debt desired dispute employed endeavored England English father Fort Duquesne Franklin friends gave give Gnadenhutten Gout governor hands heard honor horses hundred Indians industry inhabitants instructions Keimer kind learning length letters Little Britain lived lodging London Lord Loudoun Madeira wine master means mention mind never night observed occasion officers opinion pamphlet paper Pennsylvania perhaps person Philadelphia pleased pleasure Poor Richard says POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC Port-Royal present printed printer printing-house procure proposed province Province of Pennsylvania Quakers received sailed sect sensible shillings Socratic method sometimes soon street thee things thought thousand pounds tion told took Uncle Benjamin virtue wagons walk writing wrote young