The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral, and Literary : with His LifeW. Van Norden, 1825 - 290 pàgines |
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... continued in the episcopal church . My father , Josias , married early in life . He went , with his wife and three children , to New - England , about the year 1682. Convent.cles being at that time prohibited by law , and frequently ...
... continued in the episcopal church . My father , Josias , married early in life . He went , with his wife and three children , to New - England , about the year 1682. Convent.cles being at that time prohibited by law , and frequently ...
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... continued employed in my fa- ther's trade for the space of two years ; that is to say , till I arrived at twelve years of age . About this time my brother John , who had served his appren- ticeship in London , having quitted my father ...
... continued employed in my fa- ther's trade for the space of two years ; that is to say , till I arrived at twelve years of age . About this time my brother John , who had served his appren- ticeship in London , having quitted my father ...
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... continued to make verses . The continual need of words of the same meaning , but of different lengths for the measure , or of different sounds for the rhyme , would have obliged me to seek for a variety of synonymes , and have rendered ...
... continued to make verses . The continual need of words of the same meaning , but of different lengths for the measure , or of different sounds for the rhyme , would have obliged me to seek for a variety of synonymes , and have rendered ...
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... continued to employ for some years ; but I afterwards abandoned it by degrees , retaining only the habit of expressing myself with modest dif- fidence , and never making use , when I advanced any proposition which might be controverted ...
... continued to employ for some years ; but I afterwards abandoned it by degrees , retaining only the habit of expressing myself with modest dif- fidence , and never making use , when I advanced any proposition which might be controverted ...
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... continued , in consequence , to make its ap- pearance for some months in my name . At length a new difference arising between my brother and me , I ventured to take advantage of my liberty , presum- ing that he would not dare to produce ...
... continued , in consequence , to make its ap- pearance for some months in my name . At length a new difference arising between my brother and me , I ventured to take advantage of my liberty , presum- ing that he would not dare to produce ...
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