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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... acquirement , and the en- couragement of his friends , who affured him that I fhould one day certainly become a man of let * Town in the Ifland of Nantucket . ters , confirmed him in this defign . My uncle DR . FRANKLIN . 17.
... acquirement , and the en- couragement of his friends , who affured him that I fhould one day certainly become a man of let * Town in the Ifland of Nantucket . ters , confirmed him in this defign . My uncle DR . FRANKLIN . 17.
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... becoming a very bad habit , and frequently renders a man's company infupporta- ble , as being no otherwife capable of indulgence than by indifcriminate contradiction . Indepen- dently of the acrimony and difcord it introduces into ...
... becoming a very bad habit , and frequently renders a man's company infupporta- ble , as being no otherwife capable of indulgence than by indifcriminate contradiction . Indepen- dently of the acrimony and difcord it introduces into ...
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... me to lend him fome of it ; promifing to repay me as foon as he should get employment . At laft he had drawn fo much of this money , that I was ex- tremely alarmed at what might become of me , fhould DR . FRANKLIN . 55.
... me to lend him fome of it ; promifing to repay me as foon as he should get employment . At laft he had drawn fo much of this money , that I was ex- tremely alarmed at what might become of me , fhould DR . FRANKLIN . 55.
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... become of me , fhould he fail to make good the deficiency . His habit of drinking did not at all diminish , and was a frequent fource of difcord between us : for when he had drank a little too much , he was very headstrong . Being one ...
... become of me , fhould he fail to make good the deficiency . His habit of drinking did not at all diminish , and was a frequent fource of difcord between us : for when he had drank a little too much , he was very headstrong . Being one ...
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... become his colleague in the eítab- lithment of a new religious fe & t . He was to propagate the doctrine by preaching , and I to refute every opponent . When he explained to me his tenets , I found many abfurdities which I refused to ...
... become his colleague in the eítab- lithment of a new religious fe & t . He was to propagate the doctrine by preaching , and I to refute every opponent . When he explained to me his tenets , I found many abfurdities which I refused to ...
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