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 AuthorTappan, Whittemore, and Mason, 1836 |
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... language so lucid and expressive , that the reader's mind is never for a moment embarrassed with obscurity or doubt . In judging of the merits of these essays , in regard to the topics upon which they turn , and the mode of treating ...
... language so lucid and expressive , that the reader's mind is never for a moment embarrassed with obscurity or doubt . In judging of the merits of these essays , in regard to the topics upon which they turn , and the mode of treating ...
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... of November All - Hallows Day . Reader , does not this smell of Popery ? Does it in the least savour of the pure language of Friends ? But the plainest thing is his adoration of saints , which he confesses 84 FRANKLIN'S WRITINGS .
... of November All - Hallows Day . Reader , does not this smell of Popery ? Does it in the least savour of the pure language of Friends ? But the plainest thing is his adoration of saints , which he confesses 84 FRANKLIN'S WRITINGS .
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... language have been so widely read , as this summary of the maxims and proverbs of Poor Richard . The following account is given of it by Dr. Franklin , in his Memoirs . " " In 1732 I first published my Almanac under the name of Richard ...
... language have been so widely read , as this summary of the maxims and proverbs of Poor Richard . The following account is given of it by Dr. Franklin , in his Memoirs . " " In 1732 I first published my Almanac under the name of Richard ...
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... language is prefixed . Some copies of THE WAY TO WEALTH begin in the following manner . " I have heard , that nothing gives an author so great pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors . This pleasure I ...
... language is prefixed . Some copies of THE WAY TO WEALTH begin in the following manner . " I have heard , that nothing gives an author so great pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors . This pleasure I ...
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... LANGUAGE . THIS Parable was printed in the Boston Chronicle , 1768 , and six years afterwards in Lord Kames's Sketches of the History of Man . Lord Kames introduced it with the following prefatory remark . " It was communicated to me by ...
... LANGUAGE . THIS Parable was printed in the Boston Chronicle , 1768 , and six years afterwards in Lord Kames's Sketches of the History of Man . Lord Kames introduced it with the following prefatory remark . " It was communicated to me by ...
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