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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... become a man of letters , confirmed him in this defign . My uncle Benjamin approved also of the fcheme , and promised to give me all his volumes of fer- mons , written , as I have faid , in the fhort - hand of his invention , if I would ...
... become a man of letters , confirmed him in this defign . My uncle Benjamin approved also of the fcheme , and promised to give me all his volumes of fer- mons , written , as I have faid , in the fhort - hand of his invention , if I would ...
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... becoming a very bad habit , and fre- quently renders a man's company infupportable , as being no otherwife capable of indulgence than by indifcriminate contradiction . Independently of the acrimony and difcord it introduces into ...
... becoming a very bad habit , and fre- quently renders a man's company infupportable , as being no otherwife capable of indulgence than by indifcriminate contradiction . Independently of the acrimony and difcord it introduces into ...
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... become of me , fhould he fail to make good the deficiency . His habit of drinking did not at all diminish , and was a fre- quent fource of difcord between us ; for when he had drank a little too much , he was very headftrong . Being one ...
... become of me , fhould he fail to make good the deficiency . His habit of drinking did not at all diminish , and was a fre- quent fource of difcord between us ; for when he had drank a little too much , he was very headftrong . Being one ...
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... become his colleague in the establish- ment of a new religious fect . He was to propa- gate the doctrine by preaching , and I to refute every opponent . When he explained to me his tenets , I found many abfurdities which I refufed to ...
... become his colleague in the establish- ment of a new religious fect . He was to propa- gate the doctrine by preaching , and I to refute every opponent . When he explained to me his tenets , I found many abfurdities which I refufed to ...
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... becoming a poet . I left nothing un- attempted to divert him from his purpofe ; but he perfevered , till at laft the reading of Pope * effected his cure : he became , however , a very tolerable profe writer . I fhall speak more of him ...
... becoming a poet . I left nothing un- attempted to divert him from his purpofe ; but he perfevered , till at laft the reading of Pope * effected his cure : he became , however , a very tolerable profe writer . I fhall speak more of him ...
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