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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... 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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... things for myself , when I have had no mechanic at hand , and to construct small machines for my experiments , while the idea I have conceived has been fresh and strongly impressed on my imagination . My father at length decided that I ...
... things for myself , when I have had no mechanic at hand , and to construct small machines for my experiments , while the idea I have conceived has been fresh and strongly impressed on my imagination . My father at length decided that I ...
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... 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 contradiction , and direct and positive argument , I assumed ...
... 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 contradiction , and direct and positive argument , I assumed ...
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... thing is so or so , for such and such reasons ; or it is so , if I am not mistaken . This habit has , I think , been of considerable ad- vantage to me , when I had occasion to impress my opinion on the minds of others , and persuade ...
... thing is so or so , for such and such reasons ; or it is so , if I am not mistaken . This habit has , I think , been of considerable ad- vantage to me , when I had occasion to impress my opinion on the minds of others , and persuade ...
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... things unknown , propos'd as things forgot . And in the same poem he afterwards advises us , To speak , though sure , with seeming diffidence . He might have added to these lines , one that he has coupled elsewhere , in my opinion ...
... things unknown , propos'd as things forgot . And in the same poem he afterwards advises us , To speak , though sure , with seeming diffidence . He might have added to these lines , one that he has coupled elsewhere , in my opinion ...
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