The Life of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Written by Himself. Together with a Number of His Humorous, Moral, and Literary Essays, Chiefly in the Manner of the SpectatorStarr & Niles, 1823 - 300 Seiten |
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... father observed with respect to their eldest sons . In the researches I made at Eaton , I found no ac- count of their births , marriages , and deaths , earlier than in the year 1555 ; the parish register not extend- ing farther back ...
... father observed with respect to their eldest sons . In the researches I made at Eaton , I found no ac- count of their births , marriages , and deaths , earlier than in the year 1555 ; the parish register not extend- ing farther back ...
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... father at Boston , and lived for some years in the house with us . A particular affection had always subsisted be- tween my father and him , and I was his godson : 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 be- tween my father and him , and I was his godson : He arrived to a great age . He left behind him two quarto volumes of ...
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... father was prevail- ed 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 prevail- ed 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 de- stined me for the church , and already regarded me as the chaplain of the family . The promptitude with which , from my infancy , I had learned to read , ( for I do not remember to have been ever without this ac- quirement ) ...
... father de- stined me for the church , and already regarded me as the chaplain of the family . The promptitude with which , from my infancy , I had learned to read , ( for I do not remember to have been ever without this ac- quirement ) ...
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... father in his occupation , which was that of soap - boiler and tallow - chandler ; a business to which he had serv- ed no apprenticeship , but which he embraced on his arrival in New - England , because he found his own , that of a dyer ...
... father in his occupation , which was that of soap - boiler and tallow - chandler ; a business to which he had serv- ed no apprenticeship , but which he embraced on his arrival in New - England , because he found his own , that of a dyer ...
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