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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... should fo long have been with - held from the Public . A tranflation of them appeared in France near two years ago , coming down to the year 1731. There can be no fufficient reason , that what has thus been submitted to the perufal of ...
... should fo long have been with - held from the Public . A tranflation of them appeared in France near two years ago , coming down to the year 1731. There can be no fufficient reason , that what has thus been submitted to the perufal of ...
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... should by that time have acquired , had I continued to make verfes . The continual need of words of the fame meaning , but of different lengths for the measure , or of different sounds for the rhyme , would have obliged me to feek for a ...
... should by that time have acquired , had I continued to make verfes . The continual need of words of the fame meaning , but of different lengths for the measure , or of different sounds for the rhyme , would have obliged me to feek for a ...
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... refult from this step , thought it better that it should in future be printed in the name of Benjamin Franklin ; and to avoid the cenfure of the affembly , who * might charge him with ftill printing the paper himself DR . FRANKLIN . 85.
... refult from this step , thought it better that it should in future be printed in the name of Benjamin Franklin ; and to avoid the cenfure of the affembly , who * might charge him with ftill printing the paper himself DR . FRANKLIN . 85.
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... should now have been able to gratify it ; but having another trade , and believing myself to be a tolerable workman , I hefitated not to offer my fervices to the old M. William Bradford , who had been the first printer E in Pennsylvania ...
... should now have been able to gratify it ; but having another trade , and believing myself to be a tolerable workman , I hefitated not to offer my fervices to the old M. William Bradford , who had been the first printer E in Pennsylvania ...
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... should be welcome to lodge at his house , and he would give me a little work now and then , till fömething better fhould offer . The old man offered to introduce me to the new printer . When we were at his house : " Neighbour , " faid ...
... should be welcome to lodge at his house , and he would give me a little work now and then , till fömething better fhould offer . The old man offered to introduce me to the new printer . When we were at his house : " Neighbour , " faid ...
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