 | Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 72 pages
...ever, Thine to serve thee, RICHARD SANDERS. THE WHISTLE. WHEN I was a child about seven years of age, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with halfpence....towards a shop where toys were sold for children; and being charmed with the sound of a whistle, that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I... | |
 | Sydney Melmoth - English prose literature - 1805 - 368 pages
...receives the images of all objects, but retains none. THE WHISTLE. Franklin. WHEN I was a child, at seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop where they sold toys for children ; and being charmed with the sound... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 586 pages
...ask, what I mean ? You love stories, and will excuse my telling one of myself. When I was a child, at seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop where they sold toys for children; and being charmed with the sound... | |
 | Manual - Essays - 1809 - 324 pages
...of thf word, a claim to good breeding. ESSAY 87. THE WHISTLE. (B. Franklin.) WHEN I was a child at seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop where they sold toys for children ; and being charmed with the sound... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1811 - 196 pages
...12, 7 B. FRANKLIN. 1784. 5 THE WHISTLE, A TRUE STORY, WRITTEN TO HIS NEPHEW. WHEN I was a child at seven years old, my friends on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers, I went directly to a shop where they sold ' toys for children ; and being charmed with the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1811 - 190 pages
...12, 1 B. FRANKLIN. ^ 1784. 5 THE WHISTLE, A TRUE STORT. WRITTEN TO HIS NEPHEW. WHEN I was a child at seven years old, my friends on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers, I went directly to a shop where they sold toys for children ; and being charmed with the sound... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1814 - 234 pages
...will perish in the grasp. CliAP. VII. PROMISCUOUS FIECES. . SECTION II. THE •WHISTLE. 105 \VIIKN I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pockets with half-pence. I went directly towards a shop where toys were sold for children ; and being... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1816 - 236 pages
...SECTION VH. The Whistle. 1. WHEN I was a child about seven years of age, my friends, on a holyday, 'filled my pocket with halfpence. I went directly towards a shop where toys were sold for children; and being charmed with the sound of a ichistl'e that I met by th« way, in the hands of another boy,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 610 pages
...of that caution. You ask what I mean ? You love stories, and will excuse my telling one of myself. When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop where they sold toys for children; and, being charmed with the sonnd... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1821 - 232 pages
...ask what I mean. You love stories, and will excuse my telling one of myself. When I was a child, at seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop where they sold toys for children; and being charmed with the sound... | |
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When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop where they sold toys for children ; and, being charmed with the sound of a whistle, that I met by the way in the hands of another... 
