 | Benjamin Franklin - 1896 - 280 pages
...town, where now I dwell My name I do put here ; Without offense your real friend, ItisPeterFolgier." My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to... | |
 | William Jay Youmans - Scientists - 1896 - 636 pages
...what was good, just, and prudent in the conduct of life." The father had intended to devote the boy, "as the tithe of his sons," to the service of the Church, and was encouraged in this design by his early readiness in learning to read, and the opinion of his... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1897 - 330 pages
...where now I dwell My name I do put here ; Without offence your real friend, It is Peter Folgier." 1 My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar school2 at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe 3 of his sons, to the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1899 - 204 pages
...where now I dwell, My name I do put here ; Without offense your real friend, It is Peter Folgier." My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammarschool at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to... | |
 | 1899 - 1012 pages
...family at that time was to produce at least one clergyman, and Josiah planned to devote Benjamin, " as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church," an intention stimulated by Franklin's early bookishness. " My Uncle Benjamin, too, approved of it,"... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - Literary Criticism - 1899 - 554 pages
...family at that time was to produce at least one clergyman, and Josiah planned to devote Benjamin, " as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church," an intention stimulated by Franklin's early bookishness. " My Uncle Benjamin, too, approved of it,"... | |
 | Thomas Harrison Montgomery - 1900 - 576 pages
...without inconvenience to support the expense of a college education," he records in his autobiography.1 I was put to the grammar school at eight years of...the church. My early readiness in learning to read [he continues], (which must have been very early, as I do not remember when I could not read,) and... | |
 | George I. Aldrich, Alexander Forbes - Readers - 1900 - 444 pages
...his name is still honored by all his countrymen. i. I was born in Boston, Mass., January 17, 170G. My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different...was put to the grammar school at eight years of age. I soon learned to write a good hand ; but failed entirely in arithmetic. re fgV law'ygr af fget'gd... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1902 - 272 pages
...My father had in all seventeen children; of which I remember thirteen sitting at once at his table. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age, my father intending as an offering to God, to make me a minister of the church. My readiness in learning to read must have... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart, Blanche Evans Hazard - United States - 1902 - 268 pages
...My father had in all seventeen children ; of which I remember thirteen sitting at once at his table. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age, my father intending as an offering to God, to make me a minister of the church. My readiness in learning to read must have... | |
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My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church. 
