The Works of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral, and Literary : with His LifeC. Whittingham, 1824 - 295 Seiten |
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... says Mr. J. “ as long as the Greeks did before they produced a Homer , the Ro- mans a Virgil , the French a Racine and Vol- taire , the English a Shakspeare and Milton , should this reproach be still true , we will in- quire from what ...
... says Mr. J. “ as long as the Greeks did before they produced a Homer , the Ro- mans a Virgil , the French a Racine and Vol- taire , the English a Shakspeare and Milton , should this reproach be still true , we will in- quire from what ...
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... say more in this place of our Author would be anticipating what is hereafter men- tioned : it will therefore only be necessary to add , that due attention has been paid in the selection of such of his productions as may be adapted to ...
... say more in this place of our Author would be anticipating what is hereafter men- tioned : it will therefore only be necessary to add , that due attention has been paid in the selection of such of his productions as may be adapted to ...
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... say to myself , that were the offer made true , I would engage to run again , from beginning to end , the same career of life . All I would ask , should be the privilege of an author , to correct , in a second edition , certain errors ...
... say to myself , that were the offer made true , I would engage to run again , from beginning to end , the same career of life . All I would ask , should be the privilege of an author , to correct , in a second edition , certain errors ...
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... say to his friends , that persons so educated were often poorly provided for , he renounced his first intentions , took me from the grammar - school , and sent me to a school for writing and arithmetic , kept by a Mr. George Brownwell ...
... say to his friends , that persons so educated were often poorly provided for , he renounced his first intentions , took me from the grammar - school , and sent me to a school for writing and arithmetic , kept by a Mr. George Brownwell ...
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... say , till I arrived at twelve years of age . About this time my brother John , who had served his apprenticeship in London , having quitted my father , and being married and settled in business on his own account at Rhode Island , I ...
... say , till I arrived at twelve years of age . About this time my brother John , who had served his apprenticeship in London , having quitted my father , and being married and settled in business on his own account at Rhode Island , I ...
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