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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... myself , will afford the fame pleasure to you as to me . I fhall relate them upon paper : it will be an agreeable employment of a week's uninterrupted leifure , which I promise myself during my pre- fent retirement in the country ...
... myself , will afford the fame pleasure to you as to me . I fhall relate them upon paper : it will be an agreeable employment of a week's uninterrupted leifure , which I promise myself during my pre- fent retirement in the country ...
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... myself , I fhall yield to the inclination , fo natural in old men , to talk of themselves and their exploits , and may freely follow my bent , without being tirefome to thofe who , from refpect to my age , might think themselves obliged ...
... myself , I fhall yield to the inclination , fo natural in old men , to talk of themselves and their exploits , and may freely follow my bent , without being tirefome to thofe who , from refpect to my age , might think themselves obliged ...
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... myself , of collecting anecdotes of our family , gave me fome notes , from which I have derived many particulars refpecting our ancestors . From thefe I learn , that they had lived in the fame village ( Eaton in Northamptonshire ) ...
... myself , of collecting anecdotes of our family , gave me fome notes , from which I have derived many particulars refpecting our ancestors . From thefe I learn , that they had lived in the fame village ( Eaton in Northamptonshire ) ...
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... myself . " Had he died , " faid you , just " four years later , one might have fuppofed a " tranfmigration of fouls . " John , to the beft of my belief , was brought up to the trade of a wool - dyer . Benjamin ferved his apprenticeship ...
... myself . " Had he died , " faid you , just " four years later , one might have fuppofed a " tranfmigration of fouls . " John , to the beft of my belief , was brought up to the trade of a wool - dyer . Benjamin ferved his apprenticeship ...
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... myself , when I have had no mechanic at hand , and to conftruct fmall machines for my experiments , while the idea I have conceived has been frefh and strongly impreffed on my imagination . My father at length decided that I fhould be a ...
... myself , when I have had no mechanic at hand , and to conftruct fmall machines for my experiments , while the idea I have conceived has been frefh and strongly impreffed on my imagination . My father at length decided that I fhould be a ...
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