The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humourous, Moral, and Literary : with His LifeJohn Lomax, 1831 - 290 pàgines |
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... pleasure to you as to me . I shall relate them upon paper : it will be an agreeable employment of a week's uninterrupted leisure , which I promise myself during my present retirement in the country . There are also other mo- tives which ...
... pleasure to you as to me . I shall relate them upon paper : it will be an agreeable employment of a week's uninterrupted leisure , which I promise myself during my present retirement in the country . There are also other mo- tives which ...
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... pleasure in writing down according to the expeditory method he had devised . Many volumes were thus collected by him . He was also extremely fond of politics ; too much so , perhaps , for his situation . I lately found in London a ...
... pleasure in writing down according to the expeditory method he had devised . Many volumes were thus collected by him . He was also extremely fond of politics ; too much so , perhaps , for his situation . I lately found in London a ...
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... pleasure from seeing skilful workmen handle their tools ; and it has proved of considerable benefit , to have acquired thereby sufficient knowledge to be able to make little things for myself , when I have had no mechanic at hand , and ...
... pleasure from seeing skilful workmen handle their tools ; and it has proved of considerable benefit , to have acquired thereby sufficient knowledge to be able to make little things for myself , when I have had no mechanic at hand , and ...
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... pleasure of dis- puting . He was natually more eloquent than I ; words flowed copiously from his lips ; and frequently I thought myself vanquished , more by his volubility than by the force of his arguments . We separated without coming ...
... pleasure of dis- puting . He was natually more eloquent than I ; words flowed copiously from his lips ; and frequently I thought myself vanquished , more by his volubility than by the force of his arguments . We separated without coming ...
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... pleasure ; Iincessantly practised it ; and became very adroit in obtaining , even from persons of superior understand- ing , concessions of which they did not foresee the consequence . Thus I involved them in difficulties from which ...
... pleasure ; Iincessantly practised it ; and became very adroit in obtaining , even from persons of superior understand- ing , concessions of which they did not foresee the consequence . Thus I involved them in difficulties from which ...
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