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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... father , Thomas , was born in 1598 , lived at Eaton till he was too old to continue his trade , when he retired to Banbury , in Oxfordshire , where his son John , who was a dier , resided , and with whom my father was apprenticed . He ...
... father , Thomas , was born in 1598 , lived at Eaton till he was too old to continue his trade , when he retired to Banbury , in Oxfordshire , where his son John , who was a dier , resided , and with whom my father was apprenticed . He ...
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... father at 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 ...
... father at 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 ...
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... father was prevailed on to accompany them . My father had also , by the same wife , four children born in America , and ten others by a second wife , making in all seventeen . I remember to have seen thirteen seated together at his ...
... father was prevailed on to accompany them . My father had also , by the same wife , four children born in America , and ten others by a second wife , making in all seventeen . I remember to have seen thirteen seated together at his ...
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... father destined me for the church , and already regarded me as the chaplain of my family . The promptitude with which , from my infasy , I had learned to read , for I do not remember to have been ever without this acquirement , and the ...
... father destined me for the church , and already regarded me as the chaplain of my family . The promptitude with which , from my infasy , I had learned to read , for I do not remember to have been ever without this acquirement , and the ...
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... father , burdened with a numerous family , found that he was incapable , without subjecting himself to difficulties , of providing for the expenses of a colie- giate education ; and considering , besides , as I heard him say to his ...
... father , burdened with a numerous family , found that he was incapable , without subjecting himself to difficulties , of providing for the expenses of a colie- giate education ; and considering , besides , as I heard him say to his ...
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