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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... brother John , who had ferved his apprenticefhip in London , having quitted my father , and being married and fettled in business on his own account at Rhode Island , I was destined , to all appearance , to fupply his place , and be a ...
... brother John , who had ferved his apprenticefhip in London , having quitted my father , and being married and fettled in business on his own account at Rhode Island , I was destined , to all appearance , to fupply his place , and be a ...
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... brother had returned from England in 1717 , with a prefs and types , in order to establish a printing - house at Bofton . This business pleafed me much better than that of my father , though I had still a predilection for the fea . To ...
... brother had returned from England in 1717 , with a prefs and types , in order to establish a printing - house at Bofton . This business pleafed me much better than that of my father , though I had still a predilection for the fea . To ...
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... brother . I had now an opportunity of procuring better books . The acquaintance I neceffarily formed with bookfellers ' apprentices , enabled me to borrow a volume now and then , which I never failed to return punctually and without ...
... brother . I had now an opportunity of procuring better books . The acquaintance I neceffarily formed with bookfellers ' apprentices , enabled me to borrow a volume now and then , which I never failed to return punctually and without ...
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... brother , thinking . he might find his ac- count in it , encouraged me , and engaged me to write two ballads . One , called the Light - house Tragedy , contained an account of the fhipwreck of captain Worthilake and his two daughters ...
... brother , thinking . he might find his ac- count in it , encouraged me , and engaged me to write two ballads . One , called the Light - house Tragedy , contained an account of the fhipwreck of captain Worthilake and his two daughters ...
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... When about fixteen years of age , a work of Tryon fell into my hands , in which he recommends vegetable diet . I determined to obferve it . My brother , being D 3 being a batchelor , did not keep house , but DR . FRANKLIN . 37.
... When about fixteen years of age , a work of Tryon fell into my hands , in which he recommends vegetable diet . I determined to obferve it . My brother , being D 3 being a batchelor , did not keep house , but DR . FRANKLIN . 37.
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