The Life of Benjamin Franklin; with Selections from His Miscellaneous WorksSimpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1849 - 162 Seiten |
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... interest , and importance ; and hap pily we possess ample details for gratifying our curiosity concerning him , some of the most valuable of these having been furnished by him- self , in his highly entertaining and instructive ...
... interest , and importance ; and hap pily we possess ample details for gratifying our curiosity concerning him , some of the most valuable of these having been furnished by him- self , in his highly entertaining and instructive ...
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... interests were not with poetry . His efforts to acquire a facility in writing prose were better directed , and pursued with greater assiduity , making the Spectator one of his models ; and to the success of these efforts may be ...
... interests were not with poetry . His efforts to acquire a facility in writing prose were better directed , and pursued with greater assiduity , making the Spectator one of his models ; and to the success of these efforts may be ...
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... interests . Of course it was the young philosopher who drew up for them a body of rules , requiring that each member should in his turn produce one or more queries , to be discussed by the members ; and should every three months read an ...
... interests . Of course it was the young philosopher who drew up for them a body of rules , requiring that each member should in his turn produce one or more queries , to be discussed by the members ; and should every three months read an ...
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... interest . The great question here relative to Franklin is , whether he had eyes and heart to contemplate that interest in a sufficiently ele- vated point of view . 99 In his scheme , Order , he tells us , gave him the most trouble ...
... interest . The great question here relative to Franklin is , whether he had eyes and heart to contemplate that interest in a sufficiently ele- vated point of view . 99 In his scheme , Order , he tells us , gave him the most trouble ...
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... interest were very attractive to readers of such limited educa- tion and means of knowledge as surrounded him ; while his own original contributions evinced the rapid growth of his intellectual and literary powers . He particularizes a ...
... interest were very attractive to readers of such limited educa- tion and means of knowledge as surrounded him ; while his own original contributions evinced the rapid growth of his intellectual and literary powers . He particularizes a ...
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