The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humourous, Moral, and Literary : with His LifeJohn Lomax, 1831 - 290 pàgines |
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... manner , all my uncles to cultivate their minds . Thomas thus rendered him- self competent to the functions of a country attorney ; soon became an essential personage in the affairs of the village ; and was one of the chief movers of ...
... manner , all my uncles to cultivate their minds . Thomas thus rendered him- self competent to the functions of a country attorney ; soon became an essential personage in the affairs of the village ; and was one of the chief movers of ...
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... manner 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 ...
... manner 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 ...
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... on rhetoric and logic . In the latter I found a mode ! of disputation after the manner of Socrates . Shortly after I procured Xenophon's work , entitled , Memora ble Things of Socrates , in which are various exam 24 LIFE OF.
... on rhetoric and logic . In the latter I found a mode ! of disputation after the manner of Socrates . Shortly after I procured Xenophon's work , entitled , Memora ble Things of Socrates , in which are various exam 24 LIFE OF.
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... manner of expressing themselves , which scarcely ever fails to disgust the hearer , and is only calculated to excite opposition , and defeat every purpose for which the faculty of speech has been bestowed on man . In short , if you wish ...
... manner of expressing themselves , which scarcely ever fails to disgust the hearer , and is only calculated to excite opposition , and defeat every purpose for which the faculty of speech has been bestowed on man . In short , if you wish ...
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... manners had too much im- pertinence no to afford it a very natural pretext . When he knew that it was my determination to quit him , he wished to prevent my finding employment elsewhere . He went to all the printing - houses in the town ...
... manners had too much im- pertinence no to afford it a very natural pretext . When he knew that it was my determination to quit him , he wished to prevent my finding employment elsewhere . He went to all the printing - houses in the town ...
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