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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... means I have employed , and that has crowned them with fuccefs . My faith in this refpect leads me to hope , though I cannot count upon it , that the divine goodness will ftill be exercised towards me , either by prolonging the duration ...
... means I have employed , and that has crowned them with fuccefs . My faith in this refpect leads me to hope , though I cannot count upon it , that the divine goodness will ftill be exercised towards me , either by prolonging the duration ...
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... means only , and fuch as were calculated to encourage his fcholars . Under him I foon acquired an excellent hand ; but I failed in arithmetic , and made therein no fort of progress . At ten years of age , I was called home to affift my ...
... means only , and fuch as were calculated to encourage his fcholars . Under him I foon acquired an excellent hand ; but I failed in arithmetic , and made therein no fort of progress . At ten years of age , I was called home to affift my ...
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... means he early attracted our attention to what was juft , prudent , and beneficial in the conduct of life . He never talked of the meats which appeared upon the table , never difcuffed whether they were well or ill dreffed , of a good ...
... means he early attracted our attention to what was juft , prudent , and beneficial in the conduct of life . He never talked of the meats which appeared upon the table , never difcuffed whether they were well or ill dreffed , of a good ...
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... means , fituated as I was , I acquired the small skill I may poffefs in that way . There was in the town another young man , a great lover of books , of the name of John Collins , with whom I was inti- mately connected . We frequently ...
... means , fituated as I was , I acquired the small skill I may poffefs in that way . There was in the town another young man , a great lover of books , of the name of John Collins , with whom I was inti- mately connected . We frequently ...
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... means a man of an ill temper , and perhaps my manners had too much of impertinence not to afford it a very natural pretext . When he knew that it was my deter- mination to quit him , he wished to pre- vent my finding employment ...
... means a man of an ill temper , and perhaps my manners had too much of impertinence not to afford it a very natural pretext . When he knew that it was my deter- mination to quit him , he wished to pre- vent my finding employment ...
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