The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humourous, Moral, and Literary : with His LifeJohn Lomax, 1831 - 290 pàgines |
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... says Mr. J. " as long as the Greeks did before they produced a Homer , the Romans a Virgil , the French a Racine and Voltaire , the English Shakespeare and Milton , should this reproach be still true , we will inquire from what ...
... says Mr. J. " as long as the Greeks did before they produced a Homer , the Romans a Virgil , the French a Racine and Voltaire , the English Shakespeare and Milton , should this reproach be still true , we will inquire from what ...
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... say more in this place of our Author , would be anticipating what is hereafter mentioned : it will therefore only be necessary to add that due atten- tion has been paid in the selection of such of his pro- ductions as may be adapted to ...
... say more in this place of our Author , would be anticipating what is hereafter mentioned : it will therefore only be necessary to add that due atten- tion has been paid in the selection of such of his pro- ductions as may be adapted to ...
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... rative . When I reflect , as I frequently do , upon the felicity I have enjoyed , I sometimes say to myself , that were the offer made true , I would engage to run again , from beginning to end , the same career of life .
... rative . When I reflect , as I frequently do , upon the felicity I have enjoyed , I sometimes say to myself , that were the offer made true , I would engage to run again , from beginning to end , the same career of life .
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... say without vanity , " but some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately followed . The generality of men hate vanity in others , however strongly they may be tinctured with it themselves : for myself , I pay obei ...
... say without vanity , " but some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately followed . The generality of men hate vanity in others , however strongly they may be tinctured with it themselves : for myself , I pay obei ...
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... say to his friends , that a person so educated were often poorly provided for , he renounced hisfirst inten- tions , took me from the grammar - school , and sent me to a school for writing and arithmetic , kept by Mr. George Brownwell ...
... say to his friends , that a person so educated were often poorly provided for , he renounced hisfirst inten- tions , took me from the grammar - school , and sent me to a school for writing and arithmetic , kept by Mr. George Brownwell ...
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