The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral, and Literary : with His LifeW. Van Norden, 1825 - 290 Seiten |
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... gave me , with the utmost good - will , a dinner of beef - steaks , and would accept of nothing in return but a pint of ale . Here I imagined myself to be fixed till the Tuesday in the ensuing week ; but , walking out in the evening by ...
... gave me , with the utmost good - will , a dinner of beef - steaks , and would accept of nothing in return but a pint of ale . Here I imagined myself to be fixed till the Tuesday in the ensuing week ; but , walking out in the evening by ...
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... gave to the boatmen for my passage . As I had assisted them in rowing , they refused it at first ; but I insisted on their taking it . A man is sometimes more generous when he has little , than when he has much money ; probably because ...
... gave to the boatmen for my passage . As I had assisted them in rowing , they refused it at first ; but I insisted on their taking it . A man is sometimes more generous when he has little , than when he has much money ; probably because ...
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... gave me some breakfast ; but told me he haft no occasion at present for a journeyman , having late- ly procured one . He added , that there was another printer newly settled in the town , of the name of Kei- mer , who might perhaps ...
... gave me some breakfast ; but told me he haft no occasion at present for a journeyman , having late- ly procured one . He added , that there was another printer newly settled in the town , of the name of Kei- mer , who might perhaps ...
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... gave me some trifle to do for the present , for which I had my board and lodging . In a few days Keimer sent for me to print off his elegy . He had now procured another set of letter- cases , and had a pamphlet to re - print , upon ...
... gave me some trifle to do for the present , for which I had my board and lodging . In a few days Keimer sent for me to print off his elegy . He had now procured another set of letter- cases , and had a pamphlet to re - print , upon ...
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... gave me a long letter , in which he said many flattering things of me to my father ; and strongly re- commended the project of my settling at Philadelphia , as a thing which could not fail to make my fortune . Going down the bay we ...
... gave me a long letter , in which he said many flattering things of me to my father ; and strongly re- commended the project of my settling at Philadelphia , as a thing which could not fail to make my fortune . Going down the bay we ...
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