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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... first time , brought together from various refources , will be found to be more miscellaneous than any of Dr. Franklin's that have formerly been collected , and will therefore be more ge- nerally amufing . Dr. Franklin tells us , in his ...
... first time , brought together from various refources , will be found to be more miscellaneous than any of Dr. Franklin's that have formerly been collected , and will therefore be more ge- nerally amufing . Dr. Franklin tells us , in his ...
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... first eminence and confequence in the world ; but it brings his history no lower than the year 1757 , and I understand that fince he fent over the copy , which I have read , he has been able to make no addi- tions to it . It is with a ...
... first eminence and confequence in the world ; but it brings his history no lower than the year 1757 , and I understand that fince he fent over the copy , which I have read , he has been able to make no addi- tions to it . It is with a ...
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... first justice at th ' affize , To help the poor , the doubtful to advise . In all employments , generous , juft he prov'd , Renown'd for courtefy , by all belov❜d . This This regifter informed me , that I was the young- 4 LIFE OF.
... first justice at th ' affize , To help the poor , the doubtful to advise . In all employments , generous , juft he prov'd , Renown'd for courtefy , by all belov❜d . This This regifter informed me , that I was the young- 4 LIFE OF.
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... first colonists of New England , of whom Cotton Mather makes honourable mention , in his Ecclefiaftical History of that province , as " a pious and learned English- man , " if I rightly recollect his expreffions . I have been told of ...
... first colonists of New England , of whom Cotton Mather makes honourable mention , in his Ecclefiaftical History of that province , as " a pious and learned English- man , " if I rightly recollect his expreffions . I have been told of ...
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... first printer in Pennsylvania , but had quitted that province on account of a quarrel with George Keith , the governor . He could not give me employment himself , having little to do , and already as many perfons as he wanted ; but he ...
... first printer in Pennsylvania , but had quitted that province on account of a quarrel with George Keith , the governor . He could not give me employment himself , having little to do , and already as many perfons as he wanted ; but he ...
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