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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... writing . He observed , that though I had the advantage of my adversary in correct spelling and pointing , which I owed to my occupation , I was greatly his inferior in elegance of expression , in 24 LIFE OF FRANKLIN .
... writing . He observed , that though I had the advantage of my adversary in correct spelling and pointing , which I owed to my occupation , I was greatly his inferior in elegance of expression , in 24 LIFE OF FRANKLIN .
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... writing decently in the English language , which was one of the great objects of my ambition . The time which I devoted to these exercises , and to reading , was the evening after my day's labor was finished , the morning before it ...
... writing decently in the English language , which was one of the great objects of my ambition . The time which I devoted to these exercises , and to reading , was the evening after my day's labor was finished , the morning before it ...
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... writers as I had hitherto supposed them . Be that as it may , encouraged by this little adventure , I wrote and sent to the press , in the same way , many other pieces , which were equally approved ; keeping the secret till my slender ...
... writers as I had hitherto supposed them . Be that as it may , encouraged by this little adventure , I wrote and sent to the press , in the same way , many other pieces , which were equally approved ; keeping the secret till my slender ...
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... writing very engag- ing to the reader , who , in the most interesting passages , finds himself admitted , as it were , into the company , and present at the conversation . De Foe has imitated it with success in his Robinson Crusoe , his ...
... writing very engag- ing to the reader , who , in the most interesting passages , finds himself admitted , as it were , into the company , and present at the conversation . De Foe has imitated it with success in his Robinson Crusoe , his ...
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... writer . I shall speak more of him hereafter ; but as I shall probably have no farther occasion to mention the other two , I ought to observe here , that Watson died a few years after in my arms . He was greatly regret- * Probably the ...
... writer . I shall speak more of him hereafter ; but as I shall probably have no farther occasion to mention the other two , I ought to observe here , that Watson died a few years after in my arms . He was greatly regret- * Probably the ...
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