The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humourous, Moral, and Literary : with His LifeJohn Lomax, 1831 - 290 Seiten |
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... enter- prise , and which would require so considerable a sum of money . My old comrade , Collins , who was a clerk in the post - office . charmed with the account I gave of my new residence , expressed a desire of going thither ; and ...
... enter- prise , and which would require so considerable a sum of money . My old comrade , Collins , who was a clerk in the post - office . charmed with the account I gave of my new residence , expressed a desire of going thither ; and ...
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... I returned , some- what astonished , to the ship , but still without enter taining the slightest suspicion . Mr. Hamilton , a celebrated barrister of Philadel phia , had taken a passage to England for himself LIFE OF.
... I returned , some- what astonished , to the ship , but still without enter taining the slightest suspicion . Mr. Hamilton , a celebrated barrister of Philadel phia , had taken a passage to England for himself LIFE OF.
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... enter into partnership with him . " My time with Keimer , " added he , " will be at an end next spring . In the mean time we may send to Lon . don for our press and types . I know that I am no workman ; but if you agree to the proposal ...
... enter into partnership with him . " My time with Keimer , " added he , " will be at an end next spring . In the mean time we may send to Lon . don for our press and types . I know that I am no workman ; but if you agree to the proposal ...
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... enter so freely into the particulars of my industry , but that such of my descendants as shall read these memoirs may know the use of this virtue , by seeing , in the re- cital of my life , the effects it operated in my favour . George ...
... enter so freely into the particulars of my industry , but that such of my descendants as shall read these memoirs may know the use of this virtue , by seeing , in the re- cital of my life , the effects it operated in my favour . George ...
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... enter through cracks - the consequence of which are colds , tooth - aches , & c . Although philosophy was a principal object of Franklin's pursuit for several years , he confined him . self not to this . In the year 1747 , he becanie a ...
... enter through cracks - the consequence of which are colds , tooth - aches , & c . Although philosophy was a principal object of Franklin's pursuit for several years , he confined him . self not to this . In the year 1747 , he becanie a ...
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