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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... procure . I was partic- ularly pleased with accounts of voyages . My frst acquisition was Bunyan's collection in small reperate volumes . These I afterwards sold in order to buy an historical collection by R. Bur- on , which consisted ...
... procure . I was partic- ularly pleased with accounts of voyages . My frst acquisition was Bunyan's collection in small reperate volumes . These I afterwards sold in order to buy an historical collection by R. Bur- on , which consisted ...
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... procured Xeno- phon's work , entitled , Memorable Things of Soc- rates , in which are various examples of the same method . Charmed to a degree of enthusiasm with this mode of disputing , I adopted it , and renouncing blunt ...
... procured Xeno- phon's work , entitled , Memorable Things of Soc- rates , in which are various examples of the same method . Charmed to a degree of enthusiasm with this mode of disputing , I adopted it , and renouncing blunt ...
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... procure a small sum of money , and went privately on board the sloop . By favor of a good wind , I found myself in three days at New - York , nearly three hundred miles from my home , at the age of seventeen , without knowing an ...
... procure a small sum of money , and went privately on board the sloop . By favor of a good wind , I found myself in three days at New - York , nearly three hundred miles from my home , at the age of seventeen , without knowing an ...
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... procured one . He added , that there was ano- ther printer newly settled in the town , of the name of Keimer , who might perhaps employ me ; and that in case of refusal , I should be welcome to lodge at his house , and he would give me ...
... procured one . He added , that there was ano- ther printer newly settled in the town , of the name of Keimer , who might perhaps employ me ; and that in case of refusal , I should be welcome to lodge at his house , and he would give me ...
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... procured another set of letter - cases , and had a pamphlet to reprint , upon which he set me to work . The two Philadelphia printers appeared des- titute of every qualification necessary in their profession . Bradford had not been ...
... procured another set of letter - cases , and had a pamphlet to reprint , upon which he set me to work . The two Philadelphia printers appeared des- titute of every qualification necessary in their profession . Bradford had not been ...
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