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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... things for 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 ...
... things for 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 ...
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... Things of Socrates , in which are various examples of the fame me- thod . Charmed to a degree of enthusiasm with this mode of difputing ; I adopted it , and renoun- cing blunt contradiction , and direct and positive argument , I affumed ...
... Things of Socrates , in which are various examples of the fame me- thod . Charmed to a degree of enthusiasm with this mode of difputing ; I adopted it , and renoun- cing blunt contradiction , and direct and positive argument , I affumed ...
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... thing is fo or fo , for fuch and fuch reafons ; or it is fo , if I am not mistaken . This habit has , I think , been of confiderable advan- tage to me , when I have had occafion to imprefs my opinion on the minds of others , and ...
... thing is fo or fo , for fuch and fuch reafons ; or it is fo , if I am not mistaken . This habit has , I think , been of confiderable advan- tage to me , when I have had occafion to imprefs my opinion on the minds of others , and ...
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... things unknown propos'd as things forgot . And in the fame poem he afterwards advises us , To fpeak , though fure , with fecming diffidence . He might have added to these lines , one that he has coupled elsewhere ... thing that 22 LIFE OF.
... things unknown propos'd as things forgot . And in the fame poem he afterwards advises us , To fpeak , though fure , with fecming diffidence . He might have added to these lines , one that he has coupled elsewhere ... thing that 22 LIFE OF.
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... thing that was not likely to fucceed ; a fingle newspaper being , in their opinion , fufficient for all America . prefent , however , in 1771 , there are no less than twenty - five . But he carried his project into ex- ecution , and I ...
... thing that was not likely to fucceed ; a fingle newspaper being , in their opinion , fufficient for all America . prefent , however , in 1771 , there are no less than twenty - five . But he carried his project into ex- ecution , and I ...
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