THE WORKS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN; CONTAINING SEVERAL POLITICAL AND HISTORICAL TRACTS NOT INCLUDED IN ANY FORMER EDITION AND MANY LETTERS OFFICIAL AND PRIVATE NOT HITHERTO PUBLISHED WITH NOTES AND A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.1844 |
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... hand pretty soon ; but I failed entirely in arithmetic . At ten years old I was taken to help my father in his business , which was that of a tallow- chandler and soap - boiler ; a business to which he was not bred , but had assumed on ...
... hand pretty soon ; but I failed entirely in arithmetic . At ten years old I was taken to help my father in his business , which was that of a tallow- chandler and soap - boiler ; a business to which he was not bred , but had assumed on ...
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... hand , and to construct little machines for my experi- ments , at the moment when the intention of making these was ... hands was laid out in the purchasing of books . I was very fond of voyages . My first acquisition was Bunyan's works ...
... hand , and to construct little machines for my experi- ments , at the moment when the intention of making these was ... hands was laid out in the purchasing of books . I was very fond of voyages . My first acquisition was Bunyan's works ...
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... hand among them . But , being still a boy , and suspecting that my brother would object to printing any thing of mine in his paper , if he knew it to be mine , I contrived to disguise my hand , and , writing an anonymous paper , I put ...
... hand among them . But , being still a boy , and suspecting that my brother would object to printing any thing of mine in his paper , if he knew it to be mine , I contrived to disguise my hand , and , writing an anonymous paper , I put ...
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... hand . Neither the government nor the clergy escaped . Much caution was practised , however , in regard to in- dividuals , and names were seldom introduced . There are some severe and humorous criticisms on the poets of the day , which ...
... hand . Neither the government nor the clergy escaped . Much caution was practised , however , in regard to in- dividuals , and names were seldom introduced . There are some severe and humorous criticisms on the poets of the day , which ...
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... hands of the Almighty for the sins of the people . Thus much we could not forbear saying , out of compassion to the distressed people of the province , who must now re- sign all pretences to sense and reason , and submit to the tyranny ...
... hands of the Almighty for the sins of the people . Thus much we could not forbear saying , out of compassion to the distressed people of the province , who must now re- sign all pretences to sense and reason , and submit to the tyranny ...
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