| Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 250 Seiten
...May 12f4, 1784. THE WHISTLE, A TRUE STORY, WRITTEN TO HIS NEPHEW. WHEN I was a child, at seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pockets with...to a shop where they sold toys for children : and, heing charmed with the sound of a wlustle, that 1 met hy the way in the hands of another hoy, I voluntarily... | |
| John Stanley (printer.) - 1849 - 178 Seiten
...When I was a child, at seven years old, my friends on a holiday, filled my pockets with coppers. 1 went directly to a shop where they sold toys for children, and being charmed with the sound of a whistle, that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered him all my money for one,... | |
| Mary (aunt, pseud.) - 1853 - 176 Seiten
...whether trifling or important, with reflection and common sense. " When I was a child, at seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pockets with...; and, being charmed with the sound of a whistle, that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered him all my money for one.... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 Seiten
...telling one of myself. When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop where they...children; and, being charmed with the sound of a whistle, that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 Seiten
...May 12th, 1784 THE WHISTLE. A TRUE STORY, WRITTEN TO HIS NEPHEW. WHEN I was a child, at seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pockets with...; and, being charmed with the sound of a whistle, that I met by the way, in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered him all my money for one.... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1855 - 294 Seiten
...telling one of myself. When I was a child of seven yean old, my friends, on a holiday, filled uiy pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop where they...children ; and, being charmed with the sound of a whirllf, that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered and gave all my money... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855 - 718 Seiten
...telling one of myself. When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop where they...children ; and, being charmed with the sound of a whisfle, that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered and gave all my money... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 752 Seiten
...WHISTLE. When I was a child, at seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my little pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop, where they...children ; and being charmed with the sound of a whistle, that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered him all my money for one.... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 812 Seiten
...WHISTLE. When I was a child, at seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my little pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop, where they...children ; and, being charmed with the sound of a whittle, that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered him all my money... | |
| Walter Keating Kelly - 1861 - 258 Seiten
...following extract from a paper by its author, Benjamin Franklin : — " When I was a child of seven years old my friends on a holiday filled my pockets with...children, and being charmed with the sound of a whistle that I met by the way in the hands of another hoy, I voluntarily offered him all my money for it. I... | |
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