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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... pleasure , by being informed that the National Affembly of France had determined to go into mourning for him .. -What a glorious fcene is opened there ! The annals of the world furnish no parallel to it . One of the ho- nours of our ...
... pleasure , by being informed that the National Affembly of France had determined to go into mourning for him .. -What a glorious fcene is opened there ! The annals of the world furnish no parallel to it . One of the ho- nours of our ...
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... 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 . There are alfo other motives which ...
... 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 . There are alfo other motives which ...
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... pleasure in writing down accord- ing to the expeditory method he had devifed . Many volumes were thus collected by him . He was alfo extremely fond of politics , too much for perhaps for his fituation . I lately found in Lon- don a ...
... pleasure in writing down accord- ing to the expeditory method he had devifed . Many volumes were thus collected by him . He was alfo extremely fond of politics , too much for perhaps for his fituation . I lately found in Lon- don a ...
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... pleasure from feeing skilful workmen handle their tools ; and it has proved of confiderable benefit , to have acquired thereby sufficient know- ledge to be able to make little things for myself , when I have had no mechanic at hand ...
... pleasure from feeing skilful workmen handle their tools ; and it has proved of confiderable benefit , to have acquired thereby sufficient know- ledge to be able to make little things for myself , when I have had no mechanic at hand ...
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... It foon 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.
... It foon 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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