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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... afforded me fingular pleasure ; I inceffantly practised it ; and became very adroit in obtaining , even from per- fons of fuperior understanding , conceffions of which which they did not foresee the confequences . Thus I LIFE OF.
... afforded me fingular pleasure ; I inceffantly practised it ; and became very adroit in obtaining , even from per- fons of fuperior understanding , conceffions of which which they did not foresee the confequences . Thus I LIFE OF.
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... obtained victories , which neither my caufe nor my arguments merited . This method I continued to employ for fome years ; but I afterwards abandoned it by degrees , retaining only the habit of expreffing myfelf with modeft diffidence ...
... obtained victories , which neither my caufe nor my arguments merited . This method I continued to employ for fome years ; but I afterwards abandoned it by degrees , retaining only the habit of expreffing myfelf with modeft diffidence ...
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... obtaining the printing of the public papers of both governments : and as I ap- peared to doubt whether my father would affift me in this enterprize , Sir William faid that he would give me a letter to him , in which he would represent ...
... obtaining the printing of the public papers of both governments : and as I ap- peared to doubt whether my father would affift me in this enterprize , Sir William faid that he would give me a letter to him , in which he would represent ...
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... obtained fo advantageous a recommendation as that of a person of his rank , and that my induf- try and economy had ... obtain general esteem , and avoid fatire and farcafm , to which he thought I was too much inclined ; adding , that ...
... obtained fo advantageous a recommendation as that of a person of his rank , and that my induf- try and economy had ... obtain general esteem , and avoid fatire and farcafm , to which he thought I was too much inclined ; adding , that ...
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... obtain the neceffary fum for the purchase of my prefs , types , and paper . He appointed various times for me to come for thefe letters , which would certainly be ready ; and when I came , always put me off to another day . Thefe ...
... obtain the neceffary fum for the purchase of my prefs , types , and paper . He appointed various times for me to come for thefe letters , which would certainly be ready ; and when I came , always put me off to another day . Thefe ...
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