The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humourous, Moral, and Literary : with His LifeJohn Lomax, 1831 - 290 Seiten |
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... friends . He had invented a short - hand , which he taught me , but , hav ing never made use of it , I have now forgotten it . He was a man of piety , and a constant attendant on the best preachers , whose sermons he took a pleasure in ...
... friends . He had invented a short - hand , which he taught me , but , hav ing never made use of it , I have now forgotten it . He was a man of piety , and a constant attendant on the best preachers , whose sermons he took a pleasure in ...
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... friend , who means you well , PETER FOLGER . My brothers were all put apprentices to different trades . With respect ... friends , who assured him that I should one day certainly be- come a man of letters , confirmed him in this design ...
... friend , who means you well , PETER FOLGER . My brothers were all put apprentices to different trades . With respect ... friends , who assured him that I should one day certainly be- come a man of letters , confirmed him in this design ...
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... friends , that a person so educated were often poorly provided for , he renounced hisfirst inten- tions , took me from the grammar - school , and sent me to a school for writing and arithmetic , kept by Mr. George Brownwell , who was a ...
... friends , that a person so educated were often poorly provided for , he renounced hisfirst inten- tions , took me from the grammar - school , and sent me to a school for writing and arithmetic , kept by Mr. George Brownwell , who was a ...
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... friends or well - informed neighbours , capable of rational conversation , and he was always careful to introduce useful or ingenious topics of dis- course , which might tend to form the minds of his children . By this means he early ...
... friends or well - informed neighbours , capable of rational conversation , and he was always careful to introduce useful or ingenious topics of dis- course , which might tend to form the minds of his children . By this means he early ...
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... friend- ship is indispensably necessary . I acquired it by reading , while I lived with my father , books of reli- gious controversy . I have since remarked , that men of sense seldom fall into this error ; lawyers , fellows of ...
... friend- ship is indispensably necessary . I acquired it by reading , while I lived with my father , books of reli- gious controversy . I have since remarked , that men of sense seldom fall into this error ; lawyers , fellows of ...
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