The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral, and Literary: With His Life, Written by HimselfJohn Lomax, 1831 - 290 Seiten |
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... things for myself , when I have had no mechanic at hand , and to construct small machines for my experiments , while the idea I have conceived has been fresh and strongly impressed on my imagination . My father at length decided that I ...
... things for myself , when I have had no mechanic at hand , and to construct small machines for my experiments , while the idea I have conceived has been fresh and strongly impressed on my imagination . My father at length decided that I ...
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... on rhetoric and logic . In the latter I found a model of disputation after the manner of Socrates . Shortly after i procured Xenophon's work , entitled , Memora ble Things of Socrates , in which are various exam- 24 LIFE OF.
... on rhetoric and logic . In the latter I found a model of disputation after the manner of Socrates . Shortly after i procured Xenophon's work , entitled , Memora ble Things of Socrates , in which are various exam- 24 LIFE OF.
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With His Life, Written by Himself Benjamin Franklin. ble Things of Socrates , in which are various exam- ples of the ... thing is so and so , for such and such reasons : or it is so , if I am not mistaken . This habit has , I think ...
With His Life, Written by Himself Benjamin Franklin. ble Things of Socrates , in which are various exam- ples of the ... thing is so and so , for such and such reasons : or it is so , if I am not mistaken . This habit has , I think ...
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... things unknown proposed as things forgot . And in the same poem he afterwards advises us , To speak , though sure , with seeming diffidence . He might have added to these lines , one that he has coupled elsewhere , in my opinion , with ...
... things unknown proposed as things forgot . And in the same poem he afterwards advises us , To speak , though sure , with seeming diffidence . He might have added to these lines , one that he has coupled elsewhere , in my opinion , with ...
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... thing that was not likely to succeed ; a single newspaper being , in their opinion , sufficient for all America . At present , however , in 1771 , there are no less than twenty - five . But he carried his pro- ject into execution , and ...
... thing that was not likely to succeed ; a single newspaper being , in their opinion , sufficient for all America . At present , however , in 1771 , there are no less than twenty - five . But he carried his pro- ject into execution , and ...
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