The Life of Benjamin Franklin; with Selections from His Miscellaneous WorksSimpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1849 - 162 Seiten |
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... called the " Franklin Pensioner , " to which a disabled printer , of any country , is eligible if there be a vacancy , upon his appli- cation . A fac - simile of Franklin's Autograph , in the year 1756 , is given below , being another ...
... called the " Franklin Pensioner , " to which a disabled printer , of any country , is eligible if there be a vacancy , upon his appli- cation . A fac - simile of Franklin's Autograph , in the year 1756 , is given below , being another ...
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... called one morning to breakfast , I found it in a china bowl with a spoon of silver . They had been bought for me , without my knowledge by my wife , and had cost her the enormous sum of three and twenty shillings , for which she had no ...
... called one morning to breakfast , I found it in a china bowl with a spoon of silver . They had been bought for me , without my knowledge by my wife , and had cost her the enormous sum of three and twenty shillings , for which she had no ...
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... called the " Art of Virtue , " but never completed the design . He tells us , however , that his leading moral doctrine would have been , that vice is not hurtful because it is forbidden , but forbidden because it is hurtful . His basis ...
... called the " Art of Virtue , " but never completed the design . He tells us , however , that his leading moral doctrine would have been , that vice is not hurtful because it is forbidden , but forbidden because it is hurtful . His basis ...
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... called at Newport on his return to see his brother James , who had removed thither with his printing - office ; and their meeting was cordial , all former differences having been forgotten . His brother being in a declining state of ...
... called at Newport on his return to see his brother James , who had removed thither with his printing - office ; and their meeting was cordial , all former differences having been forgotten . His brother being in a declining state of ...
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... called to act so much like an enemy . Indeed the effect of the appeal was prodigious , arous ing the capital at once . A public meeting was called in Whitfield's preaching - house ; and Franklin being requested to produce his pro- mised ...
... called to act so much like an enemy . Indeed the effect of the appeal was prodigious , arous ing the capital at once . A public meeting was called in Whitfield's preaching - house ; and Franklin being requested to produce his pro- mised ...
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