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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... whole family preferved its attachment to the Church of England till towards the clofe of the reign of Charles II . when certain minifters , who had been ejected as nonconformifts , having held conventicles in Northamptonshire , they ...
... whole family preferved its attachment to the Church of England till towards the clofe of the reign of Charles II . when certain minifters , who had been ejected as nonconformifts , having held conventicles in Northamptonshire , they ...
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... whole life I have ever preserved . My apprenticeship became infupportable to me , and I continually fighed for an opportunity of fhortening it , which at length unexpectedly offered . An article inferted in our paper , upon fome ...
... whole life I have ever preserved . My apprenticeship became infupportable to me , and I continually fighed for an opportunity of fhortening it , which at length unexpectedly offered . An article inferted in our paper , upon fome ...
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... whole night but the wind abating the next day , we fucceeded in reaching Amboy before it was dark , after having ... whole day , fo that I was wet to the skin . Finding myself fatigued about noon , Iftopped at a paltry inn , where I ...
... whole night but the wind abating the next day , we fucceeded in reaching Amboy before it was dark , after having ... whole day , fo that I was wet to the skin . Finding myself fatigued about noon , Iftopped at a paltry inn , where I ...
Page 47
... whole expence of our living did not exceed for each eighteen - pence a week . I have fince that period observed feveral Lents with the greatest ftrictnefs , and have fuddenly returned again to my ordinary diet , without ex- periencing ...
... whole expence of our living did not exceed for each eighteen - pence a week . I have fince that period observed feveral Lents with the greatest ftrictnefs , and have fuddenly returned again to my ordinary diet , without ex- periencing ...
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... whole cabin , fo that Ralph and I were obliged to take up our lodging with the crew . Being unknown to every body in the fhip , we were looked upon as of the common order of people but Mr. Hamilton and his fon ( it was James , who was ...
... whole cabin , fo that Ralph and I were obliged to take up our lodging with the crew . Being unknown to every body in the fhip , we were looked upon as of the common order of people but Mr. Hamilton and his fon ( it was James , who was ...
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