The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humourous, Moral, and Literary : with His LifeJohn Lomax, 1831 - 290 Seiten |
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... father observed with respect to their eldest sons . In the researches I made at Eaton , I found no ac- count of their births , marriages , and deaths . earlier than the year 1555 ; the parish register not extend- ing farther back than ...
... father observed with respect to their eldest sons . In the researches I made at Eaton , I found no ac- count of their births , marriages , and deaths . earlier than the year 1555 ; the parish register not extend- ing farther back than ...
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... father at Boston , and lived for some years in the house with us A particular affection had always subsisted between my father and him ; and I was his god - son . He arrived to a great age . He left behind him two quarto volumes of ...
... father at Boston , and lived for some years in the house with us A particular affection had always subsisted between my father and him ; and I was his god - son . He arrived to a great age . He left behind him two quarto volumes of ...
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... father was prevail- ed on to accompany them . My father had also by the same wife , four children born in America , and ten others by a second wife , making in all seventeen I remember to have seen thirteen seated together at his table ...
... father was prevail- ed on to accompany them . My father had also by the same wife , four children born in America , and ten others by a second wife , making in all seventeen I remember to have seen thirteen seated together at his table ...
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... father destined me for the church , and already regarded me as the chaplain of my family . The promptitude with which , from my infancy , I had learned to read , for I do not remember to have been ever without this acquirement , and the ...
... father destined me for the church , and already regarded me as the chaplain of my family . The promptitude with which , from my infancy , I had learned to read , for I do not remember to have been ever without this acquirement , and the ...
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... father , burdened with a numerous family , found that he was incapable , without subjecting himself to difficulties , of providing for the expenses of a colle- giate education ; and considering , besides , as I heard him say to his ...
... father , burdened with a numerous family , found that he was incapable , without subjecting himself to difficulties , of providing for the expenses of a colle- giate education ; and considering , besides , as I heard him say to his ...
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