The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral, and Literary: With His Life, Written by Himself |
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I have since , in consequence of skilful workmen handle their tools ; and it has
proved for myself , when I have had no mechanic at hand , on my imagination . A
2 strongly impressed had learned this trade in London , and had established DR .
I have since , in consequence of skilful workmen handle their tools ; and it has
proved for myself , when I have had no mechanic at hand , on my imagination . A
2 strongly impressed had learned this trade in London , and had established DR .
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had learned this trade in London , and had established himself at Boston . But the
premiuin be required for my apprenticeship displeasing my father , I was recalled
home . From my earliest years I had been passionately fond of reading , and I ...
had learned this trade in London , and had established himself at Boston . But the
premiuin be required for my apprenticeship displeasing my father , I was recalled
home . From my earliest years I had been passionately fond of reading , and I ...
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... abop this period that , having one day been put to the blush for my ignorance in
the art of cal . culation , which I had twice failed to learn while at school , I took
Cocker's Treatise of Arithmetic , and went through it myself with the utmost ease .
... abop this period that , having one day been put to the blush for my ignorance in
the art of cal . culation , which I had twice failed to learn while at school , I took
Cocker's Treatise of Arithmetic , and went through it myself with the utmost ease .
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I have since learned that it has been translated into almost all the languages of
Europe , and . next to the Bible , I am persuaded it is one ů of the books that has
had the greatest spread . Honest John is the first , that I know of , who lias mixed ...
I have since learned that it has been translated into almost all the languages of
Europe , and . next to the Bible , I am persuaded it is one ů of the books that has
had the greatest spread . Honest John is the first , that I know of , who lias mixed ...
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I spent the night at his house , and reached Birlinge ton , the next morning . In my
arrival , I had the mor . tification to learn that the ordinary passage boats liad
bailed a little before This was on a Saturdav , and there would be no other boat
till ...
I spent the night at his house , and reached Birlinge ton , the next morning . In my
arrival , I had the mor . tification to learn that the ordinary passage boats liad
bailed a little before This was on a Saturdav , and there would be no other boat
till ...
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