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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... ment , gratify my vanity . Scarcely in- deed have I ever heard or read the in- ` troductory phrafe , " I may fay without vanity , " but fome striking and character- iftic inftance of vanity has immediately followed . The generality of ...
... ment , gratify my vanity . Scarcely in- deed have I ever heard or read the in- ` troductory phrafe , " I may fay without vanity , " but fome striking and character- iftic inftance of vanity has immediately followed . The generality of ...
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... uncle Benjamin . The whole family preserved its attach- ment to the Church of England till to- wards the close of the reign of Charles II . when when certain minifters , who had been ejected as nonconformifts DR . FRANKLIN . 13.
... uncle Benjamin . The whole family preserved its attach- ment to the Church of England till to- wards the close of the reign of Charles II . when when certain minifters , who had been ejected as nonconformifts DR . FRANKLIN . 13.
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... ment , I affumed the character of a hum- ble queftioner . The perufal of Shaftf- bury and Collins had made me a fceptic ; and being previoufly fo as to many doc- trines of Chriftianity , I found Socrates's method to be both the fafeft ...
... ment , I affumed the character of a hum- ble queftioner . The perufal of Shaftf- bury and Collins had made me a fceptic ; and being previoufly fo as to many doc- trines of Chriftianity , I found Socrates's method to be both the fafeft ...
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... ment , wrote fhort effays for the paper , which gave it reputation and increased its fale . These gentlemen frequently came to our house . I heard the con verfation that paffed , and the accounts they gave of the favourable reception of ...
... ment , wrote fhort effays for the paper , which gave it reputation and increased its fale . These gentlemen frequently came to our house . I heard the con verfation that paffed , and the accounts they gave of the favourable reception of ...
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... been the first printer in Pennsylvania , but had quitted that province on account of a quarrel with George Keith , the gover- nor . He could not give me employ- E 3 ment ment himself , having little to do , and already DR . FRANKLIN . 53.
... been the first printer in Pennsylvania , but had quitted that province on account of a quarrel with George Keith , the gover- nor . He could not give me employ- E 3 ment ment himself , having little to do , and already DR . FRANKLIN . 53.
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