The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humourous, Moral, and Literary : with His LifeJohn Lomax, 1831 - 290 Seiten |
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... advantage from my nar- rative . When I reflect , as I frequently do , upon the felicity I have enjoyed , I sometimes say to myself , that were the offer made true , I would engage to run again , from beginning to end , the same career ...
... advantage from my nar- rative . When I reflect , as I frequently do , upon the felicity I have enjoyed , I sometimes say to myself , that were the offer made true , I would engage to run again , from beginning to end , the same career ...
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... advantage of my adversary in correct spell- ing and pointing . which I owed to my occupation , I was greatly his inferior in elegance of expression , in arrangement , and perspicuity . Of this be convinced me by several examples . 1 ...
... advantage of my adversary in correct spell- ing and pointing . which I owed to my occupation , I was greatly his inferior in elegance of expression , in arrangement , and perspicuity . Of this be convinced me by several examples . 1 ...
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... advantages resulted to me from the plan . When my brother and his workmen left the printing - house to go to dinner , I remained be- hind , and despatching my frugal meal , which fre- quently consisted of a biscuit only , or a slice of ...
... advantages resulted to me from the plan . When my brother and his workmen left the printing - house to go to dinner , I remained be- hind , and despatching my frugal meal , which fre- quently consisted of a biscuit only , or a slice of ...
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... advantage of my liberty . presum- ing that he would not dare to produce the new con- tract . It was undoubtedly dishonourable to avail myself of this circumstance , and I reckon this action as one of the first errors of my life ; but I ...
... advantage of my liberty . presum- ing that he would not dare to produce the new con- tract . It was undoubtedly dishonourable to avail myself of this circumstance , and I reckon this action as one of the first errors of my life ; but I ...
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... advantage of being able to de- vote more time to reading and study , and an astonish- ing disposition for mathematics , in which he left me far behind him When at Boston , I had been accus- tomed to pass with him almost all my leisure ...
... advantage of being able to de- vote more time to reading and study , and an astonish- ing disposition for mathematics , in which he left me far behind him When at Boston , I had been accus- tomed to pass with him almost all my leisure ...
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