 | Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow - 1875 - 579 Seiten
...years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church. My early readiness in learning to read (which must...Benjamin, too, approved of it, and proposed to give me all his short-hand volumes of sermons, I suppose as a stock to set up with, if I would learn his character.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 812 Seiten
...years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church. My early readiness in learning to read (which must...Benjamin, too, approved of it, and proposed to give me all his short-hand volumes of sermons, I suppose as a stock to set up with, if I would learn his character.... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - 1876 - 416 Seiten
...sons, to the service of the church, as a minister. "My early readiness in learning to read," he says, " (which must have been very early, as I do not remember when I could not read), and the opinion of all my father's friends, encouraged him in this purpose of his. My uncle Benjamin, too, approved of it,... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1877 - 982 Seiten
...years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church. My early readiness in learning to read (which must...Benjamin, too, approved of it, and proposed to give me all his short-hand volumes of sermons, I suppose as a stock to set up with, if I would learn his character.... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1877 - 996 Seiten
...years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church. My early readiness in learning to read (which must...Benjamin, too, approved of it, and proposed to give me all his short-hand volumes of sermons, I suppose as a stock to set up with, if I would learn his character.... | |
 | 1877 - 972 Seiten
...years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church. My early readiness in learning to read (which must...Benjamin, too, approved of it, and proposed to give me all his short-hand volumes of sermons, I suppose as a stock to set up with, if I would learn his character.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow (de New York, jurisconsulte.) - 1879 - 596 Seiten
...years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church. My early readiness in learning to read (which must...Benjamin, too, approved of it, and proposed to give me all his short-hand volumes of sermons, I suppose as a stock to set up with, if I would learn his character.... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 Seiten
...years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the church. My early readiness in learning to read (which must...read), and the opinion of all his friends that I should s certainly make a good scholar, encouraged him in this purpose of his. My uncle Benjamin, too, approved... | |
 | William Swinton - 1882 - 686 Seiten
...years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the church. My early readiness in learning to read (which must...Benjamin, too, approved of it, and proposed to give me all his short-hand volumes of sermons, I suppose as a NOTES. — Line I. grammar-school. This was,... | |
 | 1883 - 82 Seiten
...years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church. My early readiness in learning to read (which must...Benjamin, too, approved of it, and proposed to give me all his short-hand volumes of sermons, I suppose as a stock to set up with, if I would learn his character.... | |
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My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the church. My early readiness in learning to read (which... 
