AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN1901 |
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... endeavored to get into the play-house, believing himself qualified for an actor ; but Wilkes, to whom ha applied, advised him candidly not to think of that employment, as it was impossible he should succeed in it. Then he proposed to ...
... endeavored to get into the play-house, believing himself qualified for an actor ; but Wilkes, to whom ha applied, advised him candidly not to think of that employment, as it was impossible he should succeed in it. Then he proposed to ...
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... endeavored rather to discourage his proceeding. One of Young's0 Satires was then just published. I copied and sent him a great part of it, which set in a strong light the folly of pursuing the Muses. All was in vain ; sheets of the poem ...
... endeavored rather to discourage his proceeding. One of Young's0 Satires was then just published. I copied and sent him a great part of it, which set in a strong light the folly of pursuing the Muses. All was in vain ; sheets of the poem ...
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... endeavored to convince him that the bodily strength afforded by beer could only be in proportion to the grain or flour of the barley dissolved in the water of which it was made ; that there was more flour in a pennyworth of bread ; and ...
... endeavored to convince him that the bodily strength afforded by beer could only be in proportion to the grain or flour of the barley dissolved in the water of which it was made ; that there was more flour in a pennyworth of bread ; and ...
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... endeavored to make each other happy. Thus I corrected that great erratum as well as I could. A limit this time our club meeting, not at a tavern, but in a little room of Mr. Grace's set apart for that purpose, a propo- «ition was made ...
... endeavored to make each other happy. Thus I corrected that great erratum as well as I could. A limit this time our club meeting, not at a tavern, but in a little room of Mr. Grace's set apart for that purpose, a propo- «ition was made ...
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... endeavored to convince young persons that no qualities are so likely to make a poor man's fortune as those of probity and integrity. My list of virtues contained at first but twelve ; but a Quaker friend having kindly informed me that I ...
... endeavored to convince young persons that no qualities are so likely to make a poor man's fortune as those of probity and integrity. My list of virtues contained at first but twelve ; but a Quaker friend having kindly informed me that I ...
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