The Life and Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin. [Edited by Benjamin Vaughan. With a Biographical Article by Henry Stuber, Reprinted from “The Columbian Magazine.” With a Portrait.]Brightly&Childs, 1800 - 471 Seiten |
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... reason to be thankful he was so long spared ; that the most useful life should be the longest also ; that it was protracted so far beyond the ordinary span allotted to humanity , as to avail us of bis wisdom and virtue , in the ...
... reason to be thankful he was so long spared ; that the most useful life should be the longest also ; that it was protracted so far beyond the ordinary span allotted to humanity , as to avail us of bis wisdom and virtue , in the ...
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... reasons ; or it is so , if I am not mistaken . This habit has , I think , been of ' considerable advantage to me , when I have had occasion to impress my opinion on the minds of others , and persuade them to the adoption of the measures ...
... reasons ; or it is so , if I am not mistaken . This habit has , I think , been of ' considerable advantage to me , when I have had occasion to impress my opinion on the minds of others , and persuade them to the adoption of the measures ...
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... reason to apprehend , as , from my indiscreet disputes upon the subject of religion , I began to be regarded by pious souls with horror , either as an apostate or an atheist . 1 came , therefore , to a resolution : but my father , in ...
... reason to apprehend , as , from my indiscreet disputes upon the subject of religion , I began to be regarded by pious souls with horror , either as an apostate or an atheist . 1 came , therefore , to a resolution : but my father , in ...
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... reason , that I made a very singular and grotesquc ap- pearance . 1 . I then turned the corner , and went through Chesnut- street , eating my roll all the way ; and having made this round , I found myself again on Market - street wharf ...
... reason , that I made a very singular and grotesquc ap- pearance . 1 . I then turned the corner , and went through Chesnut- street , eating my roll all the way ; and having made this round , I found myself again on Market - street wharf ...
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... reasons which had induced me to quit Boston , with such force and clearness , that he was convinced I had been less to blame than he had imagined . Sir William Keith , governor of the province , was at Newcastle at the time . Captain ...
... reasons which had induced me to quit Boston , with such force and clearness , that he was convinced I had been less to blame than he had imagined . Sir William Keith , governor of the province , was at Newcastle at the time . Captain ...
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