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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... , and my mother at eighty - five . They are buried together at Boston , where , a few years ago , I placed a marble over their grave , with this infcrip- tion : << Here ་ " Here lie " JOSIAS FRANKLIN and A BIAH 24 LIFE OF.
... , and my mother at eighty - five . They are buried together at Boston , where , a few years ago , I placed a marble over their grave , with this infcrip- tion : << Here ་ " Here lie " JOSIAS FRANKLIN and A BIAH 24 LIFE OF.
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... , as being no otherwise capable of indul- gence than by indiscriminate contradic- tion . Independently of the acrimony and difcord it introduces into conver- fation , fation , it is often productive of dislike , and 32 LIFE OF.
... , as being no otherwise capable of indul- gence than by indiscriminate contradic- tion . Independently of the acrimony and difcord it introduces into conver- fation , fation , it is often productive of dislike , and 32 LIFE OF.
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... tion on those whom you may be defirous of gaining over to your views . Pope judiciously obferves , Men must be taught as if you taught them not , And things unknown propos'd as things forgot . And in the fame poem he afterwards advises ...
... tion on those whom you may be defirous of gaining over to your views . Pope judiciously obferves , Men must be taught as if you taught them not , And things unknown propos'd as things forgot . And in the fame poem he afterwards advises ...
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... tion which they ftill entertained for me , affuring me that , if I would return , every thing should be adjusted to my fatisfac- tion ; and he was very preffing in his entreaties . I answered his letter , thanked him for his advice ...
... tion which they ftill entertained for me , affuring me that , if I would return , every thing should be adjusted to my fatisfac- tion ; and he was very preffing in his entreaties . I answered his letter , thanked him for his advice ...
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... tion , he fet off before me , by land , for Rhode Island , leaving his books , which formed a handfome collection in mathe- matics and natural philofophy , to be con- veyed with mine to New - York , where he purpofed to wait for me . My ...
... tion , he fet off before me , by land , for Rhode Island , leaving his books , which formed a handfome collection in mathe- matics and natural philofophy , to be con- veyed with mine to New - York , where he purpofed to wait for me . My ...
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