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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... pieces addreffed to his friends . He had invented a fhort - hand , which he taught me , but having never made use of it , I have now forgotten it . He was a man of piety , and a con- ftant attendant on the beft preachers , whofe fer ...
... pieces addreffed to his friends . He had invented a fhort - hand , which he taught me , but having never made use of it , I have now forgotten it . He was a man of piety , and a con- ftant attendant on the beft preachers , whofe fer ...
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... pieces ; but there appears to be only one in print , which I met with many years ago . It was published in the year 1675 , and is in familiar verfe , agreeably to the tafte of the times and the country . The author addreffes himself to ...
... pieces ; but there appears to be only one in print , which I met with many years ago . It was published in the year 1675 , and is in familiar verfe , agreeably to the tafte of the times and the country . The author addreffes himself to ...
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... pieces . My brother , thinking he might find his account in it , encouraged me , and engaged me to write two ballads . One , called the Light- houfe Tragedy , contained an account of the ship- wreck of captain Worthilake and his two ...
... pieces . My brother , thinking he might find his account in it , encouraged me , and engaged me to write two ballads . One , called the Light- houfe Tragedy , contained an account of the ship- wreck of captain Worthilake and his two ...
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... piece , I placed it at night under the door of the printing - houfe , where it was found the next morning . My ... pieces , which were equally approved ; keeping the the fecret till my flender ftock of information and knowledge DR ...
... piece , I placed it at night under the door of the printing - houfe , where it was found the next morning . My ... pieces , which were equally approved ; keeping the the fecret till my flender ftock of information and knowledge DR ...
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... pieces our rotten fails , prevented us from entering the Kill , and threw us upon Long Island . During the fquall a drunken Dutchman , who like myfelf was a paffenger in the boat , fell into the fea . At the moment that he was finking ...
... pieces our rotten fails , prevented us from entering the Kill , and threw us upon Long Island . During the fquall a drunken Dutchman , who like myfelf was a paffenger in the boat , fell into the fea . At the moment that he was finking ...
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