The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral, and Literary : with His LifeW. Van Norden, 1825 - 290 Seiten |
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... Boston - 141 The Whistle , a true Story , written to his Ne- phew 143 A Petition of the Left Hand 144 The Handsome and Deformed Leg Conversation of a Company of Ephemere ; with the Soliloquy of one advanced in Age Morals of Chess · The ...
... Boston - 141 The Whistle , a true Story , written to his Ne- phew 143 A Petition of the Left Hand 144 The Handsome and Deformed Leg Conversation of a Company of Ephemere ; with the Soliloquy of one advanced in Age Morals of Chess · The ...
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... Boston , and lived for some years in the house with us . A particular affection had always subsisted between my father and him , and i was his god - son . He arrived to a great age . He left behind him two quarto volumes of poems in ...
... Boston , and lived for some years in the house with us . A particular affection had always subsisted between my father and him , and i was his god - son . He arrived to a great age . He left behind him two quarto volumes of poems in ...
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... Boston , in New - Eng- land . My mother , the second wife , was Abiah Fol- ger , daughter of Peter Folger , one of the first colonists of New England , of whom Cotton Mather makes hon- ourable mention , in his Ecclesiastical History of ...
... Boston , in New - Eng- land . My mother , the second wife , was Abiah Fol- ger , daughter of Peter Folger , one of the first colonists of New England , of whom Cotton Mather makes hon- ourable mention , in his Ecclesiastical History of ...
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... Boston , where , a few years ago , I placed a marble over their grave , with this inscription : " Here lie JOSIAS FRANKLIN and ABIAH his wife : They lived " together with reciprocal affection for fifty - nine years ; " and without ...
... Boston , where , a few years ago , I placed a marble over their grave , with this inscription : " Here lie JOSIAS FRANKLIN and ABIAH his wife : They lived " together with reciprocal affection for fifty - nine years ; " and without ...
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... Boston . But the premium he required for my apprenticeship displeasing my father , I was re- called home . From my earliest years I had been passionately fond of reading , and I laid out in books all the money I could procure . I was ...
... Boston . But the premium he required for my apprenticeship displeasing my father , I was re- called home . From my earliest years I had been passionately fond of reading , and I laid out in books all the money I could procure . I was ...
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