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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... give the appearance of being obstinately attached to iny opinion . I rather said , I imagine , I suppose , or it appears to me , that such a thing is so or so , for such and such reasons ; or it is so , if I am not mistaken . This habit ...
... give the appearance of being obstinately attached to iny opinion . I rather said , I imagine , I suppose , or it appears to me , that such a thing is so or so , for such and such reasons ; or it is so , if I am not mistaken . This habit ...
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... give you the two lines together : Immodest words admit of no defence , For want of decency is want of sense . Now , want of sense , when a man has the misfortune to be so circumstanced , is it not a kind of excuse for want of modesty ...
... give you the two lines together : Immodest words admit of no defence , For want of decency is want of sense . Now , want of sense , when a man has the misfortune to be so circumstanced , is it not a kind of excuse for want of modesty ...
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... give me employ- inent 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 ...
... give me employ- inent 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 ...
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... give a particular account . He was neither deficient in understanding or literature , but he was a sad infidel ; and , some years after , wickedly under- took to travesty the Bible , in burlesque verse , as Cot ton travestied Virgil ...
... give a particular account . He was neither deficient in understanding or literature , but he was a sad infidel ; and , some years after , wickedly under- took to travesty the Bible , in burlesque verse , as Cot ton travestied Virgil ...
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... give me a little work now and then , till something better should offer . The old man offered to introduce me to the new printer . When we were at his house , " Neighbour , " said he , " I bring you a young man in the printing bu siness ...
... give me a little work now and then , till something better should offer . The old man offered to introduce me to the new printer . When we were at his house , " Neighbour , " said he , " I bring you a young man in the printing bu siness ...
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