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 Spectator. In Two Volumes. ...G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1793 |
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... thing . We fhall then fee in what manner he will speak of them . I agreed to this little artifice , and immediately transcribed the verfes to prevent all fufpicion . We met . Watson's performance was the first that was read . It had ...
... thing . We fhall then fee in what manner he will speak of them . I agreed to this little artifice , and immediately transcribed the verfes to prevent all fufpicion . We met . Watson's performance was the first that was read . It had ...
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... thing that came in his way , and writing tolerably well , ingenious in many little trifles , and of an agreeable conversation . Thomas Godfrey , a fkilful , though felf - taught mathematician , and who was afterwards the inventor of ...
... thing that came in his way , and writing tolerably well , ingenious in many little trifles , and of an agreeable conversation . Thomas Godfrey , a fkilful , though felf - taught mathematician , and who was afterwards the inventor of ...
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... thing , came to me feparately , without the knowledge of each other , and without my having applied to either of them . Each offered me whatever money might be neceffary , to take the business into my own hands , if the thing was ...
... thing , came to me feparately , without the knowledge of each other , and without my having applied to either of them . Each offered me whatever money might be neceffary , to take the business into my own hands , if the thing was ...
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