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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... difputing . He was naturally more eloquent than I ; words flowed copiously from his lips ; and frequently I thought myself vanquished , more by his volu- VOL . II . D bility bility than by the force of his argu- ments . DR . FRANKLIN . 33.
... difputing . He was naturally more eloquent than I ; words flowed copiously from his lips ; and frequently I thought myself vanquished , more by his volu- VOL . II . D bility bility than by the force of his argu- ments . DR . FRANKLIN . 33.
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... thoughts to paper , made a fair copy , and fent it him . He answered , and I replied . Three or four letters had been written by each , when my father chanced to light upon my papers and read them . Without entering into the merits of ...
... thoughts to paper , made a fair copy , and fent it him . He answered , and I replied . Three or four letters had been written by each , when my father chanced to light upon my papers and read them . Without entering into the merits of ...
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... thought the style excellent , and wished it were in my power to imitate it . With this view I felected fome of the papers , made fhort fummaries of the fenfe of each period , and put them for a few days afide . I then , without looking ...
... thought the style excellent , and wished it were in my power to imitate it . With this view I felected fome of the papers , made fhort fummaries of the fenfe of each period , and put them for a few days afide . I then , without looking ...
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... thoughts . On comparing afterwards my perform- ance with the original , many faults were apparent , which I corrected ; but I had fometimes the fatisfaction to think , that , in certain particulars of little importance , I had been in ...
... thoughts . On comparing afterwards my perform- ance with the original , many faults were apparent , which I corrected ; but I had fometimes the fatisfaction to think , that , in certain particulars of little importance , I had been in ...
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... thought or the style ; and this encouraged me to hope that I should fucceed , in time , in writing decently in the English language , which was one of the great objects of my ambition . The time which I devoted to thefe exercises , and ...
... thought or the style ; and this encouraged me to hope that I should fucceed , in time , in writing decently in the English language , which was one of the great objects of my ambition . The time which I devoted to thefe exercises , and ...
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