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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... continued in the epifcopal church . My father , Jofias , married early in life . He went , with his wife and three chil- dren , to New England , about the year 1682. Conventicles being at that time prohibited by law , and frequently dif ...
... continued in the epifcopal church . My father , Jofias , married early in life . He went , with his wife and three chil- dren , to New England , about the year 1682. Conventicles being at that time prohibited by law , and frequently dif ...
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... continued em- ployed in my father's trade for the space of two years ; that is to fay , till I ar- rived at twelve years of age . About this time my brother John , who had ferved his apprenticefhip in London , having quitted my father ...
... continued em- ployed in my father's trade for the space of two years ; that is to fay , till I ar- rived at twelve years of age . About this time my brother John , who had ferved his apprenticefhip in London , having quitted my father ...
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... I wanted a fund of words , if I may fo exprefs myself , and a facility of recol- lecting and employing them , which I thought I should by that time have ac- D 2 quired , quired , had I continued to make verses . The DR . FRANKLIN . 35.
... I wanted a fund of words , if I may fo exprefs myself , and a facility of recol- lecting and employing them , which I thought I should by that time have ac- D 2 quired , quired , had I continued to make verses . The DR . FRANKLIN . 35.
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... continued to make verses . The continual need- of words of the fame meaning , but of different lengths for the measure , or of different founds for the rhyme , would have obliged me to feek for a variety of fynonymes , and have rendered ...
... continued to make verses . The continual need- of words of the fame meaning , but of different lengths for the measure , or of different founds for the rhyme , would have obliged me to feek for a variety of fynonymes , and have rendered ...
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... continued to employ for fome years ; but I afterwards aban- doned it by degrees , retaining only the habit of expreffing myself with modest diffidence , and never making ufe , when I advanced any propofition which might be controverted ...
... continued to employ for fome years ; but I afterwards aban- doned it by degrees , retaining only the habit of expreffing myself with modest diffidence , and never making ufe , when I advanced any propofition which might be controverted ...
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