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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... hand of Provi- dence , have proved so eminently successful . They may also , should they ever be placed in a similar situation , derive some advantage from my narrative . When I reflect , as I frequently do , upon the felicity I have ...
... hand of Provi- dence , have proved so eminently successful . They may also , should they ever be placed in a similar situation , derive some advantage from my narrative . When I reflect , as I frequently do , upon the felicity I have ...
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... hand is our destiny , and who can make our very afflictions subservient to our benefit . One of my uncles , desirous , like myself , of collecting anecdotes of our family , gave ine some notes , from which I have derived many ...
... hand is our destiny , and who can make our very afflictions subservient to our benefit . One of my uncles , desirous , like myself , of collecting anecdotes of our family , gave ine some notes , from which I have derived many ...
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... hand , which he taught me , but . having never made use of it , I have now forgotten it . He was a man of piety , and a constant attend- ant on the best preachers , whose ... hands of a second - hand bookseller , 12 LIFE OF FRANKLIN .
... hand , which he taught me , but . having never made use of it , I have now forgotten it . He was a man of piety , and a constant attend- ant on the best preachers , whose ... hands of a second - hand bookseller , 12 LIFE OF FRANKLIN .
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... hands of a second - hand bookseller , who knowing me by having sold me some books , brought it to me . My uncle , it seems , had left it behind him on his departure for America , about fifty years ago . I found various notes of his ...
... hands of a second - hand bookseller , who knowing me by having sold me some books , brought it to me . My uncle , it seems , had left it behind him on his departure for America , about fifty years ago . I found various notes of his ...
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... of ser- mons , written , as I have said , in the short hand of his invention , if I would take the pains to learn it . Town in the Island of Nantucket . I remained , however , scarcely a year at the LIFE OF FRANKLIN . 15.
... of ser- mons , written , as I have said , in the short hand of his invention , if I would take the pains to learn it . Town in the Island of Nantucket . I remained , however , scarcely a year at the LIFE OF FRANKLIN . 15.
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