Works of the Late Doctor Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of His Life Written by Himself, Together with Essays, Humorous, Moral & Literary, Chiefly in the Manner of the Spectator...G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1793 - 316 Seiten |
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... took me fometimes to fee mafons , coopers , braziers , joiners , and other mechanics , employed at their work ; in order to discover the bent of my in- clination , 6 clination , and fix it if he could upon some 26 LIFE OF.
... took me fometimes to fee mafons , coopers , braziers , joiners , and other mechanics , employed at their work ; in order to discover the bent of my in- clination , 6 clination , and fix it if he could upon some 26 LIFE OF.
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... some occupation that might retain me on fhore . I have fince , in confequence of thefe vifits , derived no fmall pleasure from seeing skilful workmen handle their tools ; and it has proved of confiderable benefit , to have acquired ...
... some occupation that might retain me on fhore . I have fince , in confequence of thefe vifits , derived no fmall pleasure from seeing skilful workmen handle their tools ; and it has proved of confiderable benefit , to have acquired ...
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... and was entitled the New - Eng- land Courant . The only one that ex- ifted before was the Bofton News Letter . Some of his friends , I remember , would have diffuaded him from this undertak- ing , as a have 44 LIFE OF If ...
... and was entitled the New - Eng- land Courant . The only one that ex- ifted before was the Bofton News Letter . Some of his friends , I remember , would have diffuaded him from this undertak- ing , as a have 44 LIFE OF If ...
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... some pafquinades against the governors ; which highly pleafed my brother , while others began to look upon me in an unfavourable point of view , confidering me as a young wit in- clined to fatire and lampoon . ( 6 My brother's ...
... some pafquinades against the governors ; which highly pleafed my brother , while others began to look upon me in an unfavourable point of view , confidering me as a young wit in- clined to fatire and lampoon . ( 6 My brother's ...
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... Some men , who ftood upon the brink , hallooed to us , while we did the fame on our part ; but the wind was so high , and the waves fo noify , that we could neither of us hear each other . There were fome canoes upon the bank , and we ...
... Some men , who ftood upon the brink , hallooed to us , while we did the fame on our part ; but the wind was so high , and the waves fo noify , that we could neither of us hear each other . There were fome canoes upon the bank , and we ...
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