| Benjamin Franklin - 1896 - 250 páginas
...l to set up his business in Boston. I liked it much better than that of my father, but still had a hankering for the sea. To prevent the apprehended...some time, but at last was persuaded, and signed the indentures when I was yet but twelve years old. I was i That is, type. to serve as an apprentice till... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 464 páginas
...me bound to my brother. I stood out some time, but at last was persuaded, and signed the indentures when I was yet but twelve years old. I was to serve as an apprentice till I was twenty-one years of age, only I was to be allowed journeyman's wages during... | |
| Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 578 páginas
...to set up his own business in Boston. I liked it much better than that of my father, but still had a hankering for the sea. To prevent the apprehended...some time, but at last was persuaded and signed the indentures when I was yet but twelve years old. I was to serve as an apprentice till I was twenty-one... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1899 - 204 páginas
...letters to set up his business in Boston. I liked it much better than that of my father, but still had a hankering for the sea. To prevent the apprehended...some time, but at last was persuaded and signed the indentures when I was yet but twelve years old. I was to serve as an apprentice till I was twenty-one... | |
| Thomas Harrison Montgomery - 1900 - 584 páginas
...one son (James) of that profession. I liked it much better than that of my father, but still had a hankering for the sea. To prevent the apprehended...was persuaded, and signed the indenture, when I was but twelve years old. His father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1901 - 296 páginas
...letters, to set up his business in Boston. I liked it much better than that of my father, but still bad a hankering for the sea. To prevent the apprehended...the indenture when I was yet but . twelve years old. 1 was to serve an apprenticeship till I was twenty-one years of age, only I was to be allowed journeyman's... | |
| Edward Everett Hale (Jr.), Adaline Wheelock Sterling - 1901 - 526 páginas
...letters to set up his business in Boston. I liked it much better than that of my father, but still had a hankering for the sea. To prevent the apprehended...some time, but at last was persuaded and signed the indentures when I was yet but twelve years old. I was to serve as an apprentice till I was twenty-one... | |
| Karl Frederick Geiser - 1901 - 144 páginas
...bookish inclination at length determined my father to> make me a printer * * * * I stood out sometime, but at last was persuaded, and signed the indenture,...apprenticeship till I was twenty-one years of age, only I was to be allowed journeyman's wages during the last year." 6 "The period from 1702 to 1727,"... | |
| William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1902 - 564 páginas
...letters, to set up his business in Boston. I liked it much better than that of my father, but still had a hankering for the sea. To prevent the apprehended...an inclination, my father was impatient to have me hound to my brother. 4. I stood out some time, but at last was persuaded, and signed the indentures... | |
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