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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... master of a trad . ing sloop from Boston to Delaware . Being at New castle , forty miles below Philadelphia , he heard of me , and wrote to inform me of the chagrin which my sudden departure from Boston had occasioned my pa- rents , and ...
... master of a trad . ing sloop from Boston to Delaware . Being at New castle , forty miles below Philadelphia , he heard of me , and wrote to inform me of the chagrin which my sudden departure from Boston had occasioned my pa- rents , and ...
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... master Tyron , the cap- ture of every fish as a sort of murder , committed with- out provocation , since these animals had neither done , nor were capable of doing , the smallest injury to any one that should justify the measure . This ...
... master Tyron , the cap- ture of every fish as a sort of murder , committed with- out provocation , since these animals had neither done , nor were capable of doing , the smallest injury to any one that should justify the measure . This ...
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... master , at N *** . He continued to write to me frequently , sending me large fragments of an epic poem he was composing , and which ne requested me to criticise and correct . I did so , but not without endeavouring to prevail on him to ...
... master , at N *** . He continued to write to me frequently , sending me large fragments of an epic poem he was composing , and which ne requested me to criticise and correct . I did so , but not without endeavouring to prevail on him to ...
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... master was of the same opinion , and desired me not to comply . I thus remained two or three weeks out of the fraternity . I was consequently looked upon as excommunicated ; and whenever I was absent , no little trick that ma- lice ...
... master was of the same opinion , and desired me not to comply . I thus remained two or three weeks out of the fraternity . I was consequently looked upon as excommunicated ; and whenever I was absent , no little trick that ma- lice ...
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... master by my assiduous application to business , never observing Saint Monday . My extra- ordinary quickness in composing always procured me such work as was most urgent , and which is com- monly best paid ; and thus my time passed away ...
... master by my assiduous application to business , never observing Saint Monday . My extra- ordinary quickness in composing always procured me such work as was most urgent , and which is com- monly best paid ; and thus my time passed away ...
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