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 was . He had an ex- cellent constitution , was of a middle size , but well made and strong , and extremely active in whatever he undertook . He designed with a degree of neatness , and knew a little of music . His voice was ...
... father was . He had an ex- cellent constitution , was of a middle size , but well made and strong , and extremely active in whatever he undertook . He designed with a degree of neatness , and knew a little of music . His voice was ...
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... father complain of any other disorder than that of which they died : my fa ther at the age of eighty - seven , and my mother at eighty - five . They are buried together at Boston , where , a few years ago , I placed a marble over their ...
... father complain of any other disorder than that of which they died : my fa ther at the age of eighty - seven , and my mother at eighty - five . They are buried together at Boston , where , a few years ago , I placed a marble over their ...
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... father , and being married and settled in business on his own account at Rhode Island , I was destined to all ap- = pearance , to supply his place , and be a candle - maker all my life ; but my dislike of this occupation con- tinuing ...
... father , and being married and settled in business on his own account at Rhode Island , I was destined to all ap- = pearance , to supply his place , and be a candle - maker all my life ; but my dislike of this occupation con- tinuing ...
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... father , I was re- called home . From my earliest years I had been passionately fond of reading , and I laid out in ... father's little library was principally made up of books of practical and polemical theology . I read the greatest ...
... father , I was re- called home . From my earliest years I had been passionately fond of reading , and I laid out in ... father's little library was principally made up of books of practical and polemical theology . I read the greatest ...
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... father checked my exultation , by ridiculing my pro- ductions , and telling me that versifiers were always poor . I thus escaped the misfortune of being a very wretched poet . But as the faculty of writing prose has been of great ...
... father checked my exultation , by ridiculing my pro- ductions , and telling me that versifiers were always poor . I thus escaped the misfortune of being a very wretched poet . But as the faculty of writing prose has been of great ...
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