The Life of Benjamin Franklin; with Selections from His Miscellaneous WorksSimpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1849 - 162 Seiten |
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... pleasure to me to see good workmen handle their tools . And it has been often useful to me , to have learned so much of it as to be able to do some trifling jobs in the house when a workman was not at hand , and to construct little ...
... pleasure to me to see good workmen handle their tools . And it has been often useful to me , to have learned so much of it as to be able to do some trifling jobs in the house when a workman was not at hand , and to construct little ...
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... Pleasure , and Pain , " dedicated to Ralph , and intended as an answer some of the arguments of Woollaston's " Religion of Nature , " which passed through his hands at the press . The metaphysical piece , how- ever , gained him some ...
... Pleasure , and Pain , " dedicated to Ralph , and intended as an answer some of the arguments of Woollaston's " Religion of Nature , " which passed through his hands at the press . The metaphysical piece , how- ever , gained him some ...
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... pleasure he experienced from a payment of five shillings , the first - fruits of their earnings as master printers . - He declares that the recollection of what he felt on that occasion rendered him ever after- wards more disposed than ...
... pleasure he experienced from a payment of five shillings , the first - fruits of their earnings as master printers . - He declares that the recollection of what he felt on that occasion rendered him ever after- wards more disposed than ...
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... pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music . " " He used sometimes to pray for my conversion , but never had the satisfaction of believing that his prayers were heard . Ours was a mere civil ...
... pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music . " " He used sometimes to pray for my conversion , but never had the satisfaction of believing that his prayers were heard . Ours was a mere civil ...
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... pleasure and happiness of the passage depends upon this choice , and though one must for a time be confined to his company , and be in some measure under his command . If he is a social , sensible man , obliging , and of a good ...
... pleasure and happiness of the passage depends upon this choice , and though one must for a time be confined to his company , and be in some measure under his command . If he is a social , sensible man , obliging , and of a good ...
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