The Works of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin;: Consisting of His Life Written by Himself: : Together with Essays Humorous, Moral, and Literary; Chiefly in the Manner of the Spectator, Volume 1 |
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... say to myself , that , were the offer made me , I would engage to run again , from beginning to end , the fame career of life . All I would afk fhould be the privilege of an author , to correct , in a second edition , cer- tain errors ...
... say to myself , that , were the offer made me , I would engage to run again , from beginning to end , the fame career of life . All I would afk fhould be the privilege of an author , to correct , in a second edition , cer- tain errors ...
Page 55
... say that a young man who was a passenger in his ship had a great number of books , begged him to bring me to his house . I accordingly went , and should have taken Collins with me , had he been fober . The Governor treated me with great ...
... say that a young man who was a passenger in his ship had a great number of books , begged him to bring me to his house . I accordingly went , and should have taken Collins with me , had he been fober . The Governor treated me with great ...
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... says the Spanish proverb , " are early orphans . " A me- lancholy reflection to thofe whose case it may be ! With us in America marriages are generally in the morning of life ; our children are there- fore educated and fettled in the ...
... says the Spanish proverb , " are early orphans . " A me- lancholy reflection to thofe whose case it may be ! With us in America marriages are generally in the morning of life ; our children are there- fore educated and fettled in the ...
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... says he , " the opinion of learned philofophers of our race , who lived and flou- rifhed long before my time , that this vaft world the Moulin Joly could not itself subfift more than eighteen hours : and I think there was fome ...
... says he , " the opinion of learned philofophers of our race , who lived and flou- rifhed long before my time , that this vaft world the Moulin Joly could not itself subfift more than eighteen hours : and I think there was fome ...
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... say nothing of other legiflatures and the debates upon them , will have a fimilar conclufion . March 23 , 1790 . HISTORICUS . ....... OBSERVATIONS ON WAR . By the original law of nations , war and extirpation were the punishment of ...
... say nothing of other legiflatures and the debates upon them , will have a fimilar conclufion . March 23 , 1790 . HISTORICUS . ....... OBSERVATIONS ON WAR . By the original law of nations , war and extirpation were the punishment of ...
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