| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 Seiten
...of age ; my father intending to devote me, as the tythe of his sons, to the service of the church. My early readiness in learning to read (which must...of all his friends, that I should certainly make a ' In the island of Nantucket. good scholar, encouraged him in this purpose of his. My uncle Benjamin... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 Seiten
...service of the church. My early readiness in learning to read (which must have been very early, and I do not remember when I could not read) and the opinion of all my friends, that I should certainly make a good scholar, encouraged him in this purpose of his. My... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 Seiten
...years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tythe of his sons, to the service of the church. My early readiness in learning to read (which must have been very early, and I do not remember when I could not read) and the opinion of all my friends, that I should certainly... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 Seiten
...years of age, my father intending to devote me as the tythe of his sons, to the service of the church. My early readiness in learning to read, (which must have been very early, and I do not remember when I could not read,) and the opinion of all my friends, that I should certainly... | |
| John Stanley (printer.) - 1849 - 178 Seiten
...eight years of age, my father intending me, as the tythe of his sons, to the service of the church. My early readiness in learning to read, which must...make a good scholar, encouraged him in this purpose oi his." Franklin, however, continued at the grammar school rather less than a year; although in that... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, Horatio Hastings Weld - 1849 - 602 Seiten
...must have been very early, as I do not remember when I could not read), and the opinion of all niy friends, that I should certainly make a good scholar,...Benjamin, too, approved of it, and proposed to give me bis short-hand volumes of sermons to set up with, if I would learn his short-hand. I continued, however,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, Horatio Hastings Weld - 1849 - 582 Seiten
...years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church. My early readiness in learning to read (which must...remember when I could not read), and the opinion of all my friends, that I should certainly make a good scholar, encouraged him in this purpose of his. My... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1849 - 78 Seiten
...of age, my father intending to devoting me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church. My early readiness in learning to read (which must...remember when I could not read,) and the opinion of all my friends, that I should certainly make a good scholar, encouraged him in this purpose of his. My... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 Seiten
...of age ; my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the church. My early readiness in learning to read, — which...approved of it, and proposed to give me his short-hand volume of sermons to set up with, if I would learn his short-hand. I continued, however, at the grammar... | |
| Theodore Alois Buckley - 1853 - 446 Seiten
...years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church. My early readiness in learning to read (which must...remember when I could not read), and the opinion of all my friends that I should certainly make a good scholar, encouraged him in this purpose of his. My uncle... | |
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