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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... wished it were in my power to imitate it . With this view I felected fome of the papers , made fhort fummaries of the fenfe of each period , and put them for a few days afide . I then , without looking at the book , endeavoured to ...
... wished it were in my power to imitate it . With this view I felected fome of the papers , made fhort fummaries of the fenfe of each period , and put them for a few days afide . I then , without looking at the book , endeavoured to ...
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... wished to pre- vent my finding employment elsewhere . He went to all the printing - houses in the town , and prejudiced the masters against me ; who accordingly refused to employ me . The idea then fuggested itfelf to me of going to New ...
... wished to pre- vent my finding employment elsewhere . He went to all the printing - houses in the town , and prejudiced the masters against me ; who accordingly refused to employ me . The idea then fuggested itfelf to me of going to New ...
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... 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 girl of bad character , whofe parents wished wifhed to compel me to marry her , and that 52 LIFE OF.
... 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 girl of bad character , whofe parents wished wifhed to compel me to marry her , and that 52 LIFE OF.
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... wished every one to be ignorant of the place of my'refidence , except my friend Collins , to whom I wrote , and who kept my fecret . An incident however arrived , which F 4 fent fent me home much fooner than I had propofed . DR ...
... wished every one to be ignorant of the place of my'refidence , except my friend Collins , to whom I wrote , and who kept my fecret . An incident however arrived , which F 4 fent fent me home much fooner than I had propofed . DR ...
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... wished to get employment as a merchant's clerk ; but either his breath or his countenance betrayed his bad ha- bit ; for , though he had recommenda- tions , he met with no fuccefs , and conti- nued G 3 nued to lodge and eat with me ...
... wished to get employment as a merchant's clerk ; but either his breath or his countenance betrayed his bad ha- bit ; for , though he had recommenda- tions , he met with no fuccefs , and conti- nued G 3 nued to lodge and eat with me ...
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