The Life of Benjamin Franklin; with Selections from His Miscellaneous WorksSimpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1849 - 162 Seiten |
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... wishes to eat of it ; let us offer some to her . They presented her with the tongue : she was pleased with the taste of it , and said - Your kindness shall be rewarded . Come to this place after thirteen moons , and you shall find ...
... wishes to eat of it ; let us offer some to her . They presented her with the tongue : she was pleased with the taste of it , and said - Your kindness shall be rewarded . Come to this place after thirteen moons , and you shall find ...
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... wish that the Americans should become acquainted with their own strength ; for she was apprehensive that as soon as this period arrived , the colonists would no longer submit to that monopoly of trade which to them was deeply injurious ...
... wish that the Americans should become acquainted with their own strength ; for she was apprehensive that as soon as this period arrived , the colonists would no longer submit to that monopoly of trade which to them was deeply injurious ...
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... wish to remember ; so that when you are embarked and fairly at sea , you recollect with much uneasiness , affairs which you had not termina- ted , accounts which you have not settled , and a number of things which you proposed to carry ...
... wish to remember ; so that when you are embarked and fairly at sea , you recollect with much uneasiness , affairs which you had not termina- ted , accounts which you have not settled , and a number of things which you proposed to carry ...
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... wishes for his happy return ? " It is not always in one's power , to choose a captain ; though great part of the pleasure and happiness of the passage depends upon this choice , and though one must for a time be confined to his company ...
... wishes for his happy return ? " It is not always in one's power , to choose a captain ; though great part of the pleasure and happiness of the passage depends upon this choice , and though one must for a time be confined to his company ...
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... wish you had examined more fully the subject of music , and demonstrated , that the pleasure which artists feel in hearing much of that composed in the modern taste is not the natural pleasure arising from melody or harmony of sounds ...
... wish you had examined more fully the subject of music , and demonstrated , that the pleasure which artists feel in hearing much of that composed in the modern taste is not the natural pleasure arising from melody or harmony of sounds ...
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