The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humourous, Moral, and Literary : with His LifeJohn Lomax, 1831 - 290 Seiten |
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... taken into custody , censured , and ordered into confinement for a month , because , I presume , he would not discover the author . I was also taken up , and examined before the coun- eil , but though I gave them no satisfaction , they ...
... taken into custody , censured , and ordered into confinement for a month , because , I presume , he would not discover the author . I was also taken up , and examined before the coun- eil , but though I gave them no satisfaction , they ...
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... taken to prevent me . My friend Collins undertook to favour my flight . He agreed for my pas . sage with a captain of a New York sloop , to whom he represented me as a young man of his acquaint- ance , who had an affair with a girl of ...
... taken to prevent me . My friend Collins undertook to favour my flight . He agreed for my pas . sage with a captain of a New York sloop , to whom he represented me as a young man of his acquaint- ance , who had an affair with a girl of ...
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... taken from his pocket a volume which he requested me to dry . This volume I found to be my old favourite work , Bunyan's Pilgrim , in Dutch , a beautiful impression on fine paper , with copper - plate engravings ; a dress in which I had ...
... taken from his pocket a volume which he requested me to dry . This volume I found to be my old favourite work , Bunyan's Pilgrim , in Dutch , a beautiful impression on fine paper , with copper - plate engravings ; a dress in which I had ...
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... taken up as such . The next day , however , I continued my journey , and arrived in the evening at an inn , eight or ten miles from Burlington , that was kept by one Dr. Brown . This man entered into conversation with me while I took ...
... taken up as such . The next day , however , I continued my journey , and arrived in the evening at an inn , eight or ten miles from Burlington , that was kept by one Dr. Brown . This man entered into conversation with me while I took ...
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... taken from the cabin , and knowing these women to be prostitutes , pro cured a search - warrant , found the stolen goods upon them , and had them punished . And thus , after hav- ing been saved from one rock concealed under water , upon ...
... taken from the cabin , and knowing these women to be prostitutes , pro cured a search - warrant , found the stolen goods upon them , and had them punished . And thus , after hav- ing been saved from one rock concealed under water , upon ...
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