 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 238 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 - 1905 - 496 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 1 Sherburne... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 354 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.... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, George Rice Carpenter, Katherine Bowditch Owens - 1906 - 520 Seiten
...age, my father intending to devote me to the service of the church. My early readiness in learning to read, and the opinion of all his friends that I should certainly make 5 a good scholar, encouraged him in this purpose of his. My Uncle Benjamin, too, approved of it, and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1907 - 686 Seiten
...(nee Franklin). before he went to his first school, for he says that his readiness in learning to read must have been very early "as I do not remember when I could not read." His sister speaks of him as a Bible reader at five years old. When still very young reading was a confirmed... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1908 - 430 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...a good scholar, encouraged him in this purpose of 1 The name Sherburne was later changed to Nantucket. 2 The grammar school stood on School Street, Boston,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1909 - 432 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 - 1909 - 236 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 B. Cairns - 1909 - 520 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 - 1910 - 216 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 shorthand volumes of sermons, I suppose as a stock to set up with, if I would learn his character.4... | |
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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... 
