The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral, and Literary, with His LifeS. Andrus and Son, 1847 - 304 pàgines |
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... tion , my brother Josias had done . He , there- fore , took me sometimes to see masons , coopers , glaziers , joiners , and other mechanics , employed at their work , in order to discover the bent of my inclination and fix it , if he ...
... tion , my brother Josias had done . He , there- fore , took me sometimes to see masons , coopers , glaziers , joiners , and other mechanics , employed at their work , in order to discover the bent of my inclination and fix it , if he ...
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... tion by Seller and Sturmy , and made myself master of the little geometry it contains , but I never proceeded far in this science . Nearly at the same time , I read Locke on the Human Un- derstanding , and the Art of Thinking , by ...
... tion by Seller and Sturmy , and made myself master of the little geometry it contains , but I never proceeded far in this science . Nearly at the same time , I read Locke on the Human Un- derstanding , and the Art of Thinking , by ...
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... tion are , to inform or to be informed , to please or to persuade , I could wish that intelligent and well - meaning men would not themselves dimin- ish the powers they possess of being useful , by a positive and presumtuous manner of ...
... tion are , to inform or to be informed , to please or to persuade , I could wish that intelligent and well - meaning men would not themselves dimin- ish the powers they possess of being useful , by a positive and presumtuous manner of ...
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... tion on those whom you may be desirous of gain- ing over to your views . Pope judiciously ob- serves , Men must be taught as if you taught them not , And things unknown , propos'd as things forgot . And in the same poem he afterwards ...
... tion on those whom you may be desirous of gain- ing over to your views . Pope judiciously ob- serves , Men must be taught as if you taught them not , And things unknown , propos'd as things forgot . And in the same poem he afterwards ...
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... tion that passed , and the accounts they gave of the favorable reception of their writings with the public . I was tempted to try my hand among them ; but , being still a child as it were , I was fearful that my brother might be ...
... tion that passed , and the accounts they gave of the favorable reception of their writings with the public . I was tempted to try my hand among them ; but , being still a child as it were , I was fearful that my brother might be ...
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