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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... writing memoirs of his own hiftory . These memoirs were brought down to the year 1757- Together with fome other manufcripts they were left behind him at his death , and were confidered as conftituting a part of his pofthumous property ...
... writing memoirs of his own hiftory . These memoirs were brought down to the year 1757- Together with fome other manufcripts they were left behind him at his death , and were confidered as conftituting a part of his pofthumous property ...
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... writing . By thus employing myfelf , I fhall yield to the inclination , fo natural to old men , to talk of themselves and their exploits , and may freely follow my bent , without being tirefome to thofe , who , from refpect to my age ...
... writing . By thus employing myfelf , I fhall yield to the inclination , fo natural to old men , to talk of themselves and their exploits , and may freely follow my bent , without being tirefome to thofe , who , from refpect to my age ...
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... writing in the margins . His grandfon , Samuel , is now living at Boston . Our humble family had early embraced the Re- formation . They remained faithfully attached during the reign of Queen Mary , when they were in danger of being ...
... writing in the margins . His grandfon , Samuel , is now living at Boston . Our humble family had early embraced the Re- formation . They remained faithfully attached during the reign of Queen Mary , when they were in danger of being ...
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... writing and arithmetic , kept by a Mr. George Brownwel , who was a skilful master , and fucceeded very well in his profeffion by employing gentle means only , and fuch as were calculated to encourage his fcholars . Under him I foon ...
... writing and arithmetic , kept by a Mr. George Brownwel , who was a skilful master , and fucceeded very well in his profeffion by employing gentle means only , and fuch as were calculated to encourage his fcholars . Under him I foon ...
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... by ridiculing my productions , and telling me that verlifiers were always poor . I thus efcaped the misfor tune of being , probably a very wretched post . But as the faculty of writing profe has been of DR . FRANKLIN . 25.
... by ridiculing my productions , and telling me that verlifiers were always poor . I thus efcaped the misfor tune of being , probably a very wretched post . But as the faculty of writing profe has been of DR . FRANKLIN . 25.
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