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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Page 36
... refused to employ me . The idea then fuggefted itfelf to me of going to New - York , the neareft town in which there was a printing - office . Farther red tion confirmed me in the defign of leaving + Bofton , where I had already ...
... refused to employ me . The idea then fuggefted itfelf to me of going to New - York , the neareft town in which there was a printing - office . Farther red tion confirmed me in the defign of leaving + Bofton , where I had already ...
Page 42
... refused it at first ; but I infifted on their taking it . A man is fometimes more generous when he has little , than when he has much money ; probably becaufe , in the firft cafe , he is defirous of concealing his poverty 42 LIFE OF An ...
... refused it at first ; but I infifted on their taking it . A man is fometimes more generous when he has little , than when he has much money ; probably becaufe , in the firft cafe , he is defirous of concealing his poverty 42 LIFE OF An ...
Page 52
... refusing to affist me for the prefent , because he thought me too young to be entrust- ed with the conduct of fo important an enterprise , and which would require fo confiderable a fum of money . My old comrade Collins , who was a clerk ...
... refusing to affist me for the prefent , because he thought me too young to be entrust- ed with the conduct of fo important an enterprise , and which would require fo confiderable a fum of money . My old comrade Collins , who was a clerk ...
Page 60
... refused to admit , unless he would agree in turn to adopt fome of my opi- nions . Keimer wore his beard long , because Mofes had fomewhere faid , Thou shalt not mar the corners of thy beard . He likewife obferved the Sabbath ; and these ...
... refused to admit , unless he would agree in turn to adopt fome of my opi- nions . Keimer wore his beard long , because Mofes had fomewhere faid , Thou shalt not mar the corners of thy beard . He likewife obferved the Sabbath ; and these ...
Page 96
... refusing for many years to buy a house , because all was go- ing to wreck and in the end I had the fatis- faction to fee him pay five times as much for one as it would coft him had he purchated it when he first began his lamentations ...
... refusing for many years to buy a house , because all was go- ing to wreck and in the end I had the fatis- faction to fee him pay five times as much for one as it would coft him had he purchated it when he first began his lamentations ...
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