The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral, and Literary, with His LifeS. Andrus and Son, 1847 - 304 Seiten |
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... continued employed in my father's trade for the space of two years ; that is to say , till I arrived at twelve years of age.- About this time , my brother John , who had ser- ved his apprenticeship in London , having quitted his father ...
... continued employed in my father's trade for the space of two years ; that is to say , till I arrived at twelve years of age.- About this time , my brother John , who had ser- ved his apprenticeship in London , having quitted his father ...
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... continued to make verses . The continual need of words of the same meaning , but of different lengths for the measure , or of different sounds for the rhyme , would have obliged me to seek for a variety of synonymes , and have rendered ...
... continued to make verses . The continual need of words of the same meaning , but of different lengths for the measure , or of different sounds for the rhyme , would have obliged me to seek for a variety of synonymes , and have rendered ...
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... continued to employ for some years ; but I afterwards abandoned it by degrees , retaining only the habit of expressing myself with modest diffidence , and never making use , when I advanced my proposition which might be controverted ...
... continued to employ for some years ; but I afterwards abandoned it by degrees , retaining only the habit of expressing myself with modest diffidence , and never making use , when I advanced my proposition which might be controverted ...
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... the remainder of the term This was a very shallow arrangement . It was , however , carried into immediate execution , and the paper continued , in consequence , to make its appearance for some months in my name . At 32 LIFE OF FRANKLIN .
... the remainder of the term This was a very shallow arrangement . It was , however , carried into immediate execution , and the paper continued , in consequence , to make its appearance for some months in my name . At 32 LIFE OF FRANKLIN .
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... continued my jour- ney on foot . I had fifty miles to walk , in order to reach Burlington ; where I was told I should find passage boats that would convey me to Phil- adelphia . It rained hard the whole day , so that I was wet to the ...
... continued my jour- ney on foot . I had fifty miles to walk , in order to reach Burlington ; where I was told I should find passage boats that would convey me to Phil- adelphia . It rained hard the whole day , so that I was wet to the ...
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