The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humourous, Moral, and Literary : with His LifeJohn Lomax, 1831 - 290 Seiten |
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... live in this place of decay , and to declaim in the same style , refusing for many years to buy a house , because all was going to wreck ; and , in the end , I had the satisfaction to see him pay five times as much for one , as it would ...
... live in this place of decay , and to declaim in the same style , refusing for many years to buy a house , because all was going to wreck ; and , in the end , I had the satisfaction to see him pay five times as much for one , as it would ...
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... lives and property of the citizens . The propriety of this was immediately perceived , and a reform was effected . There is nothing more dangerous to growing cities than fires . Other causes operate slowly , and almost imperceptibly but ...
... lives and property of the citizens . The propriety of this was immediately perceived , and a reform was effected . There is nothing more dangerous to growing cities than fires . Other causes operate slowly , and almost imperceptibly but ...
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... live all their lives in a situation that greatly lessens a man's value . An odd volume of a set of books , bears not the value of its proportion to the set ; what think you of the odd half of a pair of scissors ; it can't well cut any ...
... live all their lives in a situation that greatly lessens a man's value . An odd volume of a set of books , bears not the value of its proportion to the set ; what think you of the odd half of a pair of scissors ; it can't well cut any ...
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... live certainly under a wise , just , and mild government , since you have no public grievances to complain of , nor any other subject of contention but the perfections or im- perfections of foreign music . I turned my head from them to ...
... live certainly under a wise , just , and mild government , since you have no public grievances to complain of , nor any other subject of contention but the perfections or im- perfections of foreign music . I turned my head from them to ...
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... live above seven or eight minutes longer . What now avails all my toil and labour , in amassing the honey dew on this leaf , which I cannot live to enjoy . What my political struggles I have been engaged in , for the good of my ...
... live above seven or eight minutes longer . What now avails all my toil and labour , in amassing the honey dew on this leaf , which I cannot live to enjoy . What my political struggles I have been engaged in , for the good of my ...
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