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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... father obferved with refpect to their eldest fons . In the researches I made at Eaton , I found no account of their births , marriages , and deaths , earlier than the year 1555 ; the parish register not extending farther back than that ...
... father obferved with refpect to their eldest fons . In the researches I made at Eaton , I found no account of their births , marriages , and deaths , earlier than the year 1555 ; the parish register not extending farther back than that ...
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... father was apprenticed . He died , and was buried there : we faw his monument in 1758 . His eldest fon lived in the family houfe at Eaton , which he bequeathed , with the land belonging to it , to his only daughter ; who , in concert ...
... father was apprenticed . He died , and was buried there : we faw his monument in 1758 . His eldest fon lived in the family houfe at Eaton , which he bequeathed , with the land belonging to it , to his only daughter ; who , in concert ...
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... father at Bofton , and lived for fome years in the houfe with us . A particular affecti- on had always fubfifted between my father and him ; and I was his godfon . He arrived to a great age . He left behind him two quarto vo- fumes of ...
... father at Bofton , and lived for fome years in the houfe with us . A particular affecti- on had always fubfifted between my father and him ; and I was his godfon . He arrived to a great age . He left behind him two quarto vo- fumes of ...
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... father wifhed to read to his family , he reversed the lid of the close - stool upon his knees , and paff- ed the leaves from one fide to the other , which were held down on each by the packthread . One of the children was ftationed at ...
... father wifhed to read to his family , he reversed the lid of the close - stool upon his knees , and paff- ed the leaves from one fide to the other , which were held down on each by the packthread . One of the children was ftationed at ...
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... father deftined me for the church , and al- ready regarded me as the chaplain of the family . The promptitude with which from my infancy I had learned to read , for I do not remember to have been ever without this acquirement , and the ...
... father deftined me for the church , and al- ready regarded me as the chaplain of the family . The promptitude with which from my infancy I had learned to read , for I do not remember to have been ever without this acquirement , and the ...
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