Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...H. Colburn, 1833 |
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... continue in a restless obscurity , without having an opportunity of know- ing his own merit himself or discovering it to the world , rather than venture to oppose himself in a place where a pun or a sneer shall pass for 28 WRITINGS OF ...
... continue in a restless obscurity , without having an opportunity of know- ing his own merit himself or discovering it to the world , rather than venture to oppose himself in a place where a pun or a sneer shall pass for 28 WRITINGS OF ...
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... continue drawing characters , viz . Why should any man's picture be published which he never sat for ; or his good name taken from him any more than his money or possessions , at the arbitrary will of another , & c . ? I have but this ...
... continue drawing characters , viz . Why should any man's picture be published which he never sat for ; or his good name taken from him any more than his money or possessions , at the arbitrary will of another , & c . ? I have but this ...
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... continue openly to attack , with the freedom of an honest man and a lover of my country . • I profess I can hardly contain myself , or pre- serve the gravity and dignity that should attend the censorial office , when I hear the odd and ...
... continue openly to attack , with the freedom of an honest man and a lover of my country . • I profess I can hardly contain myself , or pre- serve the gravity and dignity that should attend the censorial office , when I hear the odd and ...
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... continue it , said : " Conrad , you have lived long among the white people , and know something of their customs . I have been sometimes at Albany , and have observed that once in seven days they shut up their shops , and assem- ble all ...
... continue it , said : " Conrad , you have lived long among the white people , and know something of their customs . I have been sometimes at Albany , and have observed that once in seven days they shut up their shops , and assem- ble all ...
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... continue deeply ignorant . The Greek education was of another kind ( which he describes in several particulars , and adds ) , They ' studied to write their own tongue more accurately than we do Latin and Greek . But where is English ...
... continue deeply ignorant . The Greek education was of another kind ( which he describes in several particulars , and adds ) , They ' studied to write their own tongue more accurately than we do Latin and Greek . But where is English ...
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