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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... advantage of my adversary in correct spelling and pointing , which I owed to my occupation , I was greatly his inferior in elegance of expreffion , in arrangement , and perfpicuity . Of this he convinced me by feveral examples . I felt ...
... advantage of my adversary in correct spelling and pointing , which I owed to my occupation , I was greatly his inferior in elegance of expreffion , in arrangement , and perfpicuity . Of this he convinced me by feveral examples . I felt ...
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... advantages refulted to me from the plan . When my brother and his workmen left the printing - house to go to dinner , I remained behind ; and dispatching my frugal meal , which frequently confifted of a biscuit only , or a flice of ...
... advantages refulted to me from the plan . When my brother and his workmen left the printing - house to go to dinner , I remained behind ; and dispatching my frugal meal , which frequently confifted of a biscuit only , or a flice of ...
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... , I fuppofe , or it appears to me , that fuch a thing is fo or fo , for fuch and fuch reafons ; or it is fo , if I am not mistaken . This habit has , I - think , think , been of confiderable advantage to me , when DR . FRANKLIN . 41.
... , I fuppofe , or it appears to me , that fuch a thing is fo or fo , for fuch and fuch reafons ; or it is fo , if I am not mistaken . This habit has , I - think , think , been of confiderable advantage to me , when DR . FRANKLIN . 41.
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... advantage to me , when I have had occafion to impress my opinion on the minds of others , and perfuade them to the adoption of the measures I have fuggefted . And fince the chief ends of converfation are , to inform or to be informed ...
... advantage to me , when I have had occafion to impress my opinion on the minds of others , and perfuade them to the adoption of the measures I have fuggefted . And fince the chief ends of converfation are , to inform or to be informed ...
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... name . At length a new difference arifing be- tween my brother and me , I ventured to take advantage of my liberty , prefuming . that he would not dare to produce the new new contract . It was undoubtedly dif honourable to avail 50 LIFE OF.
... name . At length a new difference arifing be- tween my brother and me , I ventured to take advantage of my liberty , prefuming . that he would not dare to produce the new new contract . It was undoubtedly dif honourable to avail 50 LIFE OF.
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