Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...H. Colburn, 1833 |
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... natural principle which inclines them to DEVO- TION , or the worship of some unseen power ; And since men are endued with reason superior to all other animals , that we are in our world acquainted with ; Therefore I think it seems ...
... natural principle which inclines them to DEVO- TION , or the worship of some unseen power ; And since men are endued with reason superior to all other animals , that we are in our world acquainted with ; Therefore I think it seems ...
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... natural desire of being valued and esteemed by the rest of his spe- cies , but I am concerned and grieved to see how few fall into the right and only infallible method of becoming so . That laudable ambition is too commonly misapplied ...
... natural desire of being valued and esteemed by the rest of his spe- cies , but I am concerned and grieved to see how few fall into the right and only infallible method of becoming so . That laudable ambition is too commonly misapplied ...
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... natural faculty of second sight . This faculty ( how derived to him our family me- moirs are not very clear ) was enjoyed by all his descendants , but not by equal talents . It was very dim in several of my first cousins , and probably ...
... natural faculty of second sight . This faculty ( how derived to him our family me- moirs are not very clear ) was enjoyed by all his descendants , but not by equal talents . It was very dim in several of my first cousins , and probably ...
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... natural faculty of second sight , in a greater lustre to me , than it had shined in through several generations , I will not here discuss . But so it is , that I am possessed largely of it , and design , if you encou- rage the proposal ...
... natural faculty of second sight , in a greater lustre to me , than it had shined in through several generations , I will not here discuss . But so it is , that I am possessed largely of it , and design , if you encou- rage the proposal ...
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... another ? or does that mi- serable son of pleasure appear as reasonable and lovely a being in your eyes as a man who , by pru- dently and rightly gratifying his natural passions , had preserved 64 WRITINGS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN .
... another ? or does that mi- serable son of pleasure appear as reasonable and lovely a being in your eyes as a man who , by pru- dently and rightly gratifying his natural passions , had preserved 64 WRITINGS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN .
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