The Works of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral, and Literary : with His LifeC. Whittingham, 1824 - 295 Seiten |
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... the French a Racine and Vol- taire , the English a Shakspeare and Milton , should this reproach be still true , we will in- quire from what unfriendly causes it has pro- ceeded , that the other countries of Europe and quarters.
... the French a Racine and Vol- taire , the English a Shakspeare and Milton , should this reproach be still true , we will in- quire from what unfriendly causes it has pro- ceeded , that the other countries of Europe and quarters.
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... English School ........ 172 On modern Innovations in the English Language and in Printing 179 An Account of the highest Court of Judicature in Pennsylvania , viz . the Court of the Press ...... 185 Paper . A Poem ........ On the Art of ...
... English School ........ 172 On modern Innovations in the English Language and in Printing 179 An Account of the highest Court of Judicature in Pennsylvania , viz . the Court of the Press ...... 185 Paper . A Poem ........ On the Art of ...
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... English Bible , and , to conceal it the more securely , they conceived the project of fas- tening it , open , with packthreads across the leaves , on the inside of the lid of the close - stool . When my great - grandfather wished to ...
... English Bible , and , to conceal it the more securely , they conceived the project of fas- tening it , open , with packthreads across the leaves , on the inside of the lid of the close - stool . When my great - grandfather wished to ...
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... English language , which was one of the great ob- jects of my ambition . The time which I devoted to these exercises , and to reading , was the evening after my day's labour was finished , the morning before it began , and Sundays when ...
... English language , which was one of the great ob- jects of my ambition . The time which I devoted to these exercises , and to reading , was the evening after my day's labour was finished , the morning before it began , and Sundays when ...
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... English Grammar , which I believe was Greenwood's , having at the end of it two little essays on rhetoric and logic . In the latter I found a model of disputation after the manner of Socrates . Shortly after I procured Xenophon's work ...
... English Grammar , which I believe was Greenwood's , having at the end of it two little essays on rhetoric and logic . In the latter I found a model of disputation after the manner of Socrates . Shortly after I procured Xenophon's work ...
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