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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... learned the trade of blacksmith under his father ; but poffeffing a good natural understanding , he improved it by study , at the folicitation of a gentleman of the name of Palmer , who was at that time the principal inhabitant of the ...
... learned the trade of blacksmith under his father ; but poffeffing a good natural understanding , he improved it by study , at the folicitation of a gentleman of the name of Palmer , who was at that time the principal inhabitant of the ...
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... learned English- man , " if I rightly recollect his expreffions . I have been told of his having written a variety of little pieces ; but there appears to be only one in print , which I met with many years ago . It was published in the ...
... learned English- man , " if I rightly recollect his expreffions . I have been told of his having written a variety of little pieces ; but there appears to be only one in print , which I met with many years ago . It was published in the ...
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... learned to read , for I do not remember to have been ever without this acquirement , and the encouragement of his friends , who affured him that I fhould one day certainly become a man of letters , confirmed him in this defign . My ...
... learned to read , for I do not remember to have been ever without this acquirement , and the encouragement of his friends , who affured him that I fhould one day certainly become a man of letters , confirmed him in this defign . My ...
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... learned this trade in London , and had established himself at Boston . But the pre- mium he required for my apprenticeship displea- fing my father , I was recalled home . From my earliest years I had been paffionately fond of reading ...
... learned this trade in London , and had established himself at Boston . But the pre- mium he required for my apprenticeship displea- fing my father , I was recalled home . From my earliest years I had been paffionately fond of reading ...
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... learned that it has been tranflated into almost all the languages of Europe , and next to the Bible , Lam perfuaded , it is one of the books which has had the greatest spread . Honeft John is the first , . that I know of , who has mixed ...
... learned that it has been tranflated into almost all the languages of Europe , and next to the Bible , Lam perfuaded , it is one of the books which has had the greatest spread . Honeft John is the first , . that I know of , who has mixed ...
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