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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... taken into cuftody , cenfured , and ordered into confinement for a month , becaufe , as I prefume , he would not difcover the author . I was also taken up , and examined before the council ; but , though I gave them no fatisfaction ...
... taken into cuftody , cenfured , and ordered into confinement for a month , becaufe , as I prefume , he would not difcover the author . I was also taken up , and examined before the council ; but , though I gave them no fatisfaction ...
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... taken to prevent me . My friend Col- lims undertook to favour my flight . He agreed for my paffage with the captain of a New - York floop , to whom he re- prefented me as a young man of his acquaintance , who had had an affair with a ...
... taken to prevent me . My friend Col- lims undertook to favour my flight . He agreed for my paffage with the captain of a New - York floop , to whom he re- prefented me as a young man of his acquaintance , who had had an affair with a ...
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... taken from his pocket a volume , which he requefted me to dry . This volume I found to be my old favourite work , Bunyan's Voyages , in Dutch , a beautiful impreffion on fine paper , with copper - plate engravings ; a drefs in which I ...
... taken from his pocket a volume , which he requefted me to dry . This volume I found to be my old favourite work , Bunyan's Voyages , in Dutch , a beautiful impreffion on fine paper , with copper - plate engravings ; a drefs in which I ...
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... taken up as fuch . The next day , however , I continued my journey , and 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 ...
... taken up as fuch . The next day , however , I continued my journey , and 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 ...
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... taken from the cabin , and knowing thefe women to be prostitutes , procured a fearch warrant , found the stolen goods upon them , and had them punished . And thus , after having been faved from one rock con- cealed under water , upon ...
... taken from the cabin , and knowing thefe women to be prostitutes , procured a fearch warrant , found the stolen goods upon them , and had them punished . And thus , after having been faved from one rock con- cealed under water , upon ...
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