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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... arrived to a great age . He left behind him two quarto volumes of poems in manufcript , confifting of little fugitive pieces addreffed to his friends . He had invented a fhort - hand , which he taught me , but having never made ufe of ...
... arrived to a great age . He left behind him two quarto volumes of poems in manufcript , confifting of little fugitive pieces addreffed to his friends . He had invented a fhort - hand , which he taught me , but having never made ufe of ...
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... , making in all feventeen . I remember to have feen thirteen feated together at his table , who all arrived to years of maturity , and were married . = My brothers were all put apprentice to different trades 14 LIFE OF.
... , making in all feventeen . I remember to have feen thirteen feated together at his table , who all arrived to years of maturity , and were married . = My brothers were all put apprentice to different trades 14 LIFE OF.
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... arrival in New Eng- land , because he found his own , that of a dyer , in too little request to enable him to maintain his family . I was ac- cordingly employed in cutting the wicks , filling the moulds , taking care of the shop ...
... arrival in New Eng- land , because he found his own , that of a dyer , in too little request to enable him to maintain his family . I was ac- cordingly employed in cutting the wicks , filling the moulds , taking care of the shop ...
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... arrived in the evening at an inn , eight or ten miles from Burlington , that was kept by one Dr. Brown . This man entered into converfation with me while I took fome refreshment , and perceiving that I had read a little , be expreffed ...
... arrived in the evening at an inn , eight or ten miles from Burlington , that was kept by one Dr. Brown . This man entered into converfation with me while I took fome refreshment , and perceiving that I had read a little , be expreffed ...
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... arrival , I had the mortification to learn that the ordinary paffage - boats had failed a little before . This was on a Saturday , and there would be no other boat till the Tuesday following . I re- turned turned to the houfe of an old ...
... arrival , I had the mortification to learn that the ordinary paffage - boats had failed a little before . This was on a Saturday , and there would be no other boat till the Tuesday following . I re- turned turned to the houfe of an old ...
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