The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humourous, Moral, and Literary : with His LifeJohn Lomax, 1831 - 290 Seiten |
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... writing . He observed , that though I had the advantage of my adversary in correct spell- ing and pointing . which I owed to my occupation , I was greatly his inferior in elegance of expression , in arrangement , and perspicuity . Of ...
... writing . He observed , that though I had the advantage of my adversary in correct spell- ing and pointing . which I owed to my occupation , I was greatly his inferior in elegance of expression , in arrangement , and perspicuity . Of ...
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... writing decently in the English language , which was one of the great objects of my ambition . The time which I devoted to these exercises , and to reading , was the evening after my day's labour was finished , the morning before it ...
... writing decently in the English language , which was one of the great objects of my ambition . The time which I devoted to these exercises , and to reading , was the evening after my day's labour was finished , the morning before it ...
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... writers as I had hitherto supposed them . Be this as it may , encouraged by this little adventure , I wrote and sent to press , in the same way , many other pieces , which were equally approved ; keeping the secret till my slender stock ...
... writers as I had hitherto supposed them . Be this as it may , encouraged by this little adventure , I wrote and sent to press , in the same way , many other pieces , which were equally approved ; keeping the secret till my slender stock ...
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... writing very engaging to the reader , who in the most interesting passages finds himself admitted , as it were , into the Company , and present at the conversation De Foe has imitated it with success in his Robinson Crusoe , his Moll ...
... writing very engaging to the reader , who in the most interesting passages finds himself admitted , as it were , into the Company , and present at the conversation De Foe has imitated it with success in his Robinson Crusoe , his Moll ...
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... writer . I shall speak more of him hereafter ; but as I shall probably have no farther occasion to mention the other two , I ought to observe here , that Watson died a few years * after in my arms . He was greatly regretted ; for he was ...
... writer . I shall speak more of him hereafter ; but as I shall probably have no farther occasion to mention the other two , I ought to observe here , that Watson died a few years * after in my arms . He was greatly regretted ; for he was ...
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