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 SpectatorP. Wogan, P. Byrne, J. Moore, and W. Jones, 1793 - 303 Seiten |
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... still a child as it were , I was fearful that my brother might be unwilling to print in his paper any performance of which he fhould know me to be the author . I there- fore contrived to difguife my hand , and having written an ...
... still a child as it were , I was fearful that my brother might be unwilling to print in his paper any performance of which he fhould know me to be the author . I there- fore contrived to difguife my hand , and having written an ...
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... still more dangerous nature . When At New - York I found my friend Collins , who had arrived fome time before . We had been in- timate from our infancy , and had read the fame books together ; but he had the advantage of be- ing able to ...
... still more dangerous nature . When At New - York I found my friend Collins , who had arrived fome time before . We had been in- timate from our infancy , and had read the fame books together ; but he had the advantage of be- ing able to ...
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... still getting in debt , was obliged at laft to fell his prefs and types , and return to his old occupation of husbandry in Pennsylvania . The person who purchased them employed Kei- mer to manage the bufinefs ; but he died a few years ...
... still getting in debt , was obliged at laft to fell his prefs and types , and return to his old occupation of husbandry in Pennsylvania . The person who purchased them employed Kei- mer to manage the bufinefs ; but he died a few years ...
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... still be received . In the year 1749 , he first fuggefted his idea of explaining the phenomena of thunder - gufts , and of the aurora borealis , upon electrical principles . He points out many particulars in which lightning and ...
... still be received . In the year 1749 , he first fuggefted his idea of explaining the phenomena of thunder - gufts , and of the aurora borealis , upon electrical principles . He points out many particulars in which lightning and ...
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... still have taken place . Befides , as the prefident - ge- neral was to be appointed by the crown , he muft , of neceflity , be devoted to its views , and would , therefore , refuse his affent to any laws , however falutary to the ...
... still have taken place . Befides , as the prefident - ge- neral was to be appointed by the crown , he muft , of neceflity , be devoted to its views , and would , therefore , refuse his affent to any laws , however falutary to the ...
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