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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... less propriety . It is this : For want of decency is want of fenfe . If you ask why I fay with lefs propriety , I muft give you the two lines together : Immodeft words admit of no defence , For want of decency is want of fenfe . Now ...
... less propriety . It is this : For want of decency is want of fenfe . If you ask why I fay with lefs propriety , I muft give you the two lines together : Immodeft words admit of no defence , For want of decency is want of fenfe . Now ...
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... less than twenty - five . But he carried his project into ex- ecution , and I was employed in diftributing the copies to his customers , after having affifted in compofing and working them off . Among his friends he had a number of ...
... less than twenty - five . But he carried his project into ex- ecution , and I was employed in diftributing the copies to his customers , after having affifted in compofing and working them off . Among his friends he had a number of ...
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... less favourable opinion of London pamphlet , to which I had prefixed , as a motto , the following lines of Dryden ; my Whatever is , is right ; though purblind man Sees but part of the chain , the nearest link , His eyes not carrying to ...
... less favourable opinion of London pamphlet , to which I had prefixed , as a motto , the following lines of Dryden ; my Whatever is , is right ; though purblind man Sees but part of the chain , the nearest link , His eyes not carrying to ...
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... less favourable reception than he had experienced in Germany . He was introduced to a number of literary characters , and to the king , Louis XV . Several letters written by Hutchinfon , Oliver , and others , to perfons in eminent ...
... less favourable reception than he had experienced in Germany . He was introduced to a number of literary characters , and to the king , Louis XV . Several letters written by Hutchinfon , Oliver , and others , to perfons in eminent ...
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... of the futility of the arguments in defence of the flave trade , and of the ftrength of mind and ingenuity of the author , at his advanced period of life . It furnished too a no a no less convincing proof of his power of imi- 146 LIFE OF.
... of the futility of the arguments in defence of the flave trade , and of the ftrength of mind and ingenuity of the author , at his advanced period of life . It furnished too a no a no less convincing proof of his power of imi- 146 LIFE OF.
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