The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author, Band 2Childs & Peterson, 1840 |
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... employed ; and if you publish this , I hereby invite all ingenious gentlemen and others ( that approve of such an un- dertaking ) to my assistance and correspondence . It is like by this time , you have a curiosity to be acquainted with ...
... employed ; and if you publish this , I hereby invite all ingenious gentlemen and others ( that approve of such an un- dertaking ) to my assistance and correspondence . It is like by this time , you have a curiosity to be acquainted with ...
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... employed . Some , to make them- selves considerable , pursue learning ; others grasp at wealth ; some aim at being thought witty ; and others are only careful to make the most of a handsome per- son ; but what is wit , or wealth , or ...
... employed . Some , to make them- selves considerable , pursue learning ; others grasp at wealth ; some aim at being thought witty ; and others are only careful to make the most of a handsome per- son ; but what is wit , or wealth , or ...
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... employed there , that can with ease earn five shillings a day at their proper trades . Many are the idle stories told of the private success of some people , by which others are encouraged to proceed ; and the astrologers , with whom ...
... employed there , that can with ease earn five shillings a day at their proper trades . Many are the idle stories told of the private success of some people , by which others are encouraged to proceed ; and the astrologers , with whom ...
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... employing such a number of ships and sea- men . " Let honest Peter Buckram , who has long without success been a searcher after hidden money , reflect on this , and be reclaimed from that unaccountable folly . Let him consider , that ...
... employing such a number of ships and sea- men . " Let honest Peter Buckram , who has long without success been a searcher after hidden money , reflect on this , and be reclaimed from that unaccountable folly . Let him consider , that ...
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... employed ? ' " Perhaps I might , ' said Charmidas ; but why do you ask me this question ? ' Socrates replied , ' Be- cause you are capable of managing the affairs of the republic ; and nevertheless you avoid doing so , though in quality ...
... employed ? ' " Perhaps I might , ' said Charmidas ; but why do you ask me this question ? ' Socrates replied , ' Be- cause you are capable of managing the affairs of the republic ; and nevertheless you avoid doing so , though in quality ...
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Abbé Morellet advantage America better bills Britain called coin colonies commerce common consequently considered corn currency debts employed endeavour England English school Europe expense exportation favor foreign Franklin friends gentlemen give Glaucon gold and silver GOUT happiness Helvetius horse hundred increase industry inhabitants judges kind King king's counsel Kinnersley labor land learned legal tender less libel liberty live Madame Helvétius mankind manner manufactures marriages master means ment merchants mind Montrésor nation nature necessary neighbours never obliged observed occasion opinion paid paper money PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE perhaps persons Philocles pleasure plenty Poor Richard says POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC pounds present principles procure produce profit province quantity readers reason receive ruin Samuel Romilly shillings slavery Socrates subsistence thee things thou thought tion trade trustees virtue wages whole writing