The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humourous, Moral, and Literary : with His LifeJohn Lomax, 1831 - 290 Seiten |
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... employ- ing the most appropriate words that occurred to my mind . I afterwards compared my Spectator with the ... employing them , which I thought I should by that time have acquired , had I continued to make verses . The continual need ...
... employ- ing the most appropriate words that occurred to my mind . I afterwards compared my Spectator with the ... employing them , which I thought I should by that time have acquired , had I continued to make verses . The continual need ...
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... employed it . It soon afforded me singular pleasure ; Iincessantly practised it ; and became very adroit in ... employ for some years ; but I afterwards abandoned it by degrees , retaining only the habit of expressing myself with modest ...
... employed it . It soon afforded me singular pleasure ; Iincessantly practised it ; and became very adroit in ... employ for some years ; but I afterwards abandoned it by degrees , retaining only the habit of expressing myself with modest ...
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... employed in distribut- ing the copies to his customers , after having assisted in composing and working them off . Among his friends he had a number of literary characters , who , as an amusement , wrote short essays for the paper ...
... employed in distribut- ing the copies to his customers , after having assisted in composing and working them off . Among his friends he had a number of literary characters , who , as an amusement , wrote short essays for the paper ...
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... employ me . The idea then suggested itse f to me of going to New York , the near- est town in which there was a printing - office . Farther reflection confirmed me in the design of leaving Bos- ton , where I had already rendered myself ...
... employ me . The idea then suggested itse f to me of going to New York , the near- est town in which there was a printing - office . Farther reflection confirmed me in the design of leaving Bos- ton , where I had already rendered myself ...
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... employ ment himself , having little to do , and already as many persons as he wanted ; but he told me that his son , printer at Philadelphia , had lately lost his principal workman , Aquila Rose , who was dead , and that if I would go ...
... employ ment himself , having little to do , and already as many persons as he wanted ; but he told me that his son , printer at Philadelphia , had lately lost his principal workman , Aquila Rose , who was dead , and that if I would go ...
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