THE WORKS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN; CONTAINING SEVERAL POLITICAL AND HISTORICAL TRACTS NOT INCLUDED IN ANY FORMER EDITION AND MANY LETTERS OFFICIAL AND PRIVATE NOT HITHERTO PUBLISHED WITH NOTES AND A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.1844 |
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... COMPANY , in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts . CAMBRIDGE : METCALF AND COMPANY , PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY . PREFACE , BY THE EDITOR . Few writers have been Miscellaneous Letters,
... COMPANY , in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts . CAMBRIDGE : METCALF AND COMPANY , PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY . PREFACE , BY THE EDITOR . Few writers have been Miscellaneous Letters,
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JARED SPARKS. PREFACE , BY THE EDITOR . Few writers have been so regardless of literary reputation as Franklin . Scarcely ... writing , till he attained a mastery over the language , which has raised his name to the first rank in English ...
JARED SPARKS. PREFACE , BY THE EDITOR . Few writers have been so regardless of literary reputation as Franklin . Scarcely ... writing , till he attained a mastery over the language , which has raised his name to the first rank in English ...
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... writers , as if it were the author's origi- nal work , although the fact of its being a transla- tion is expressly stated in the preface to the first edition , and although more than twenty years have elapsed since the autobiography was ...
... writers , as if it were the author's origi- nal work , although the fact of its being a transla- tion is expressly stated in the preface to the first edition , and although more than twenty years have elapsed since the autobiography was ...
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... writing . In thus employing myself I shall yield to the incli- nation , so natural to old men , of talking of themselves and their own actions ; and I shall indulge it without being tiresome to those , who , from respect to my age ...
... writing . In thus employing myself I shall yield to the incli- nation , so natural to old men , of talking of themselves and their own actions ; and I shall indulge it without being tiresome to those , who , from respect to my age ...
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... writing according to his method , and had thus collected several volumes of them . He was also a good deal of a politician ; too much so , perhaps , for his station . There fell lately into my hands , in London , a collection he had ...
... writing according to his method , and had thus collected several volumes of them . He was also a good deal of a politician ; too much so , perhaps , for his station . There fell lately into my hands , in London , a collection he had ...
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