Works of the Late Doctor Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of His Life Written by Himself, Together with Essays, Humorous, Moral & Literary, Chiefly in the Manner of the Spectator... |
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... learned the trade of blacksmith under his father ; but poffeff- ing a good natural understanding , he improved it by study , at the folicitation of a gentleman of the name of Palmer , who was at that time the principal inha- bitant ...
... learned the trade of blacksmith under his father ; but poffeff- ing a good natural understanding , he improved it by study , at the folicitation of a gentleman of the name of Palmer , who was at that time the principal inha- bitant ...
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... learned to read , for I do not remember to have been ever without this acquirement , and the en- couragement of his friends , who affured him that I fhould one day certainly be- come a man of letters , confirmed him in this defign . My ...
... learned to read , for I do not remember to have been ever without this acquirement , and the en- couragement of his friends , who affured him that I fhould one day certainly be- come a man of letters , confirmed him in this defign . My ...
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... learned this trade in London , and had established himself at Boston . But the premium he required for my appren- ticeship difpleafing my father , I was re- called home . From From my earliest years I had been paffionately fond of DR ...
... learned this trade in London , and had established himself at Boston . But the premium he required for my appren- ticeship difpleafing my father , I was re- called home . From From my earliest years I had been paffionately fond of DR ...
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... learned that it has been tranflated into almost all the languages of Europe , and next to the Bible , I am perfuaded , it is one of the books which has had the greatest spread . Honeft John is the first , that I know of , who has mixed ...
... learned that it has been tranflated into almost all the languages of Europe , and next to the Bible , I am perfuaded , it is one of the books which has had the greatest spread . Honeft John is the first , that I know of , who has mixed ...
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... learned my age . He thought me , he faid , a young man of very promifing talents , and that , of confequence , I ought to be encou- raged ; that there were at Philadelphia none but very ignorant printers , and that if I were to fet up ...
... learned my age . He thought me , he faid , a young man of very promifing talents , and that , of confequence , I ought to be encou- raged ; that there were at Philadelphia none but very ignorant printers , and that if I were to fet up ...
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