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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... pleasure by being in- formed that the National Assembly of France had determined to go into mourning for him . What a glorious scene is opened there ! The an- nals of the world furnish no parallel to it . One of the honors of our ...
... pleasure by being in- formed that the National Assembly of France had determined to go into mourning for him . What a glorious scene is opened there ! The an- nals of the world furnish no parallel to it . One of the honors of our ...
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... pleasure to you as to me . I shall relate them upon paper ; it will be an agreeable employment of a weeks uninter- rupted leisure , which I promise myself during my present retirement in the country . There are also other motives which ...
... pleasure to you as to me . I shall relate them upon paper ; it will be an agreeable employment of a weeks uninter- rupted leisure , which I promise myself during my present retirement in the country . There are also other motives which ...
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... pleasure in writing down according to the expe- ditory method he had devised . Many volumes were thus collected by him . He was also ex- tremely fond of politics , too much so perhaps for his situation . I lately found in London a ...
... pleasure in writing down according to the expe- ditory method he had devised . Many volumes were thus collected by him . He was also ex- tremely fond of politics , too much so perhaps for his situation . I lately found in London a ...
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... de- rived no small pleasure in seeing skillful work- men handle their tools ; and it has proved of con siderable benefit , to have acquired thereby suf- ficient knowledge to be able to make little things for 20 LIFE OF FRANKLIN .
... de- rived no small pleasure in seeing skillful work- men handle their tools ; and it has proved of con siderable benefit , to have acquired thereby suf- ficient knowledge to be able to make little things for 20 LIFE OF FRANKLIN .
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... pleasure of disputing . He was nat- urally more eloquent than I ; words flowed copi- ously from his lips ; and frequently I thought my- self vanquished , more by his volubility than by the force of his arguments . We separated with- out ...
... pleasure of disputing . He was nat- urally more eloquent than I ; words flowed copi- ously from his lips ; and frequently I thought my- self vanquished , more by his volubility than by the force of his arguments . We separated with- out ...
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