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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... themselves and their exploits , and may freely follow my bent , without being tirefome to thofe , who , from refpect to my age , might think them- felves obliged to listen to me ; as they will be at liberty to read me or not , as they ...
... themselves and their exploits , and may freely follow my bent , without being tirefome to thofe , who , from refpect to my age , might think them- felves obliged to listen to me ; as they will be at liberty to read me or not , as they ...
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... themselves ; for myself , I pay obeifance to it wherever I meet with it , perfuaded that it is advantageous , as well to the individual whom it governs , as to those who are within the sphere of its influence . Of confequence , it would ...
... themselves ; for myself , I pay obeifance to it wherever I meet with it , perfuaded that it is advantageous , as well to the individual whom it governs , as to those who are within the sphere of its influence . Of confequence , it would ...
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... themselves diminish the powers they poffefs of being ufeful , by a pofi- tive and prefumptuous manner of expreffing themselves , which scarcely ever fails to disgust the hearer , and is only calculated to excite oppofition , and defeat ...
... themselves diminish the powers they poffefs of being ufeful , by a pofi- tive and prefumptuous manner of expreffing themselves , which scarcely ever fails to disgust the hearer , and is only calculated to excite oppofition , and defeat ...
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... themselves with reprimanding , and then dif- miffing me ; confidering me probably as bound , in quality of apprentice , to keep my master's fecrets . The imprisonment of my brother kindled my resentment , notwithstanding our private ...
... themselves with reprimanding , and then dif- miffing me ; confidering me probably as bound , in quality of apprentice , to keep my master's fecrets . The imprisonment of my brother kindled my resentment , notwithstanding our private ...
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... themselves in fifhing for cod , of which they caught a great number . I had hitherto adhered to my resolu- tion of not eating any thing that had poffeffed life ; and I confidered on this occafion , agreeably 58 LIFE OF On the Slave Trade.
... themselves in fifhing for cod , of which they caught a great number . I had hitherto adhered to my resolu- tion of not eating any thing that had poffeffed life ; and I confidered on this occafion , agreeably 58 LIFE OF On the Slave Trade.
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