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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... alfo other motives which induce me to the under- taking . From the bofom of poverty and obfcu- rity , in which I drew my firft breath and spent my earliest years , I have raised myself to a ftate of opulence and to fome degree of ...
... alfo other motives which induce me to the under- taking . From the bofom of poverty and obfcu- rity , in which I drew my firft breath and spent my earliest years , I have raised myself to a ftate of opulence and to fome degree of ...
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... alfo , fhould they ever be placed in a fimilar fituation , derive fome advantage from my narrative . When I reflect , as I frequently do , upon the felicity I have enjoyed , I fometimes fay to my- felf , that , were the offer made me ...
... alfo , fhould they ever be placed in a fimilar fituation , derive fome advantage from my narrative . When I reflect , as I frequently do , upon the felicity I have enjoyed , I fometimes fay to my- felf , that , were the offer made me ...
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... alfo other freeholders " and many yeomen , able for their livelihoodes to make a jury " in form aforementioned . " OLD TRANSLATION . Chaucer too calls his country gentleman a franklin , and after defcribing his good housekeeping , thus ...
... alfo other freeholders " and many yeomen , able for their livelihoodes to make a jury " in form aforementioned . " OLD TRANSLATION . Chaucer too calls his country gentleman a franklin , and after defcribing his good housekeeping , thus ...
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... alfo extremely fond of politics , too much for perhaps for his fituation . I lately found in Lon- don a collection which he had made of all the principal pamphlets relative to public affairs , from the year 1641 to 1717. Many volumes ...
... alfo extremely fond of politics , too much for perhaps for his fituation . I lately found in Lon- don a collection which he had made of all the principal pamphlets relative to public affairs , from the year 1641 to 1717. Many volumes ...
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... religion , and my father was prevailed on to accompany them . My father had alfo by the fame wife four chil- dren born in America , and ten others by a fe- conc d cond wife , making in all feventeen . I remem- DR . FRANKLIN .
... religion , and my father was prevailed on to accompany them . My father had alfo by the fame wife four chil- dren born in America , and ten others by a fe- conc d cond wife , making in all feventeen . I remem- DR . FRANKLIN .
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