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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... favour of the anabaptists , quakers , and other sectaries , who had suffered persecution . To this persecution he attributes the wars with the natives , and other calamities which afflicted the coun- try , regarding them as the ...
... favour of the anabaptists , quakers , and other sectaries , who had suffered persecution . To this persecution he attributes the wars with the natives , and other calamities which afflicted the coun- try , regarding them as the ...
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... favour . But my brother was passionate , and often had recourse to blows , a circumstance which I took in very ill part . This severe and tyrannical treatment contributed , I believe , to imprint on my mind that aversion to arbitrary ...
... favour . But my brother was passionate , and often had recourse to blows , a circumstance which I took in very ill part . This severe and tyrannical treatment contributed , I believe , to imprint on my mind that aversion to arbitrary ...
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... favour my flight . He agreed for my pas- sage with a captain of a New - York sloop , to whom he represented me as a young man of his a quaint- ance , who had an affair with a girl of bad character , whose parents wished to compel me to ...
... favour my flight . He agreed for my pas- sage with a captain of a New - York sloop , to whom he represented me as a young man of his a quaint- ance , who had an affair with a girl of bad character , whose parents wished to compel me to ...
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... favour of what he con- sidered as my performance . He pretended that he had put some restraint on himself before , apprehensive of my construing his commendations into flattery . " But who would have supposed , " said he , “ Franklin to ...
... favour of what he con- sidered as my performance . He pretended that he had put some restraint on himself before , apprehensive of my construing his commendations into flattery . " But who would have supposed , " said he , “ Franklin to ...
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... favour- able circumstances co - operating , preserved me from all immorality , or gross and voluntary injustice , to which my want of religion was calculated to expose me , in the dangerous period of youth , and in the hazardous ...
... favour- able circumstances co - operating , preserved me from all immorality , or gross and voluntary injustice , to which my want of religion was calculated to expose me , in the dangerous period of youth , and in the hazardous ...
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