The Works of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral, and Literary : with His Life |
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... perhaps , by this employment , gratify my vanity . Scarcely , indeed , have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase , " I may say without vanity , " bĂșt some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately fol- lowed ...
... perhaps , by this employment , gratify my vanity . Scarcely , indeed , have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase , " I may say without vanity , " bĂșt some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately fol- lowed ...
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... 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 DR . FRANKLIN . 5.
... 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 DR . FRANKLIN . 5.
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... perhaps , for his situation . I lately found in London a collection which he had made of all the principal pamphlets relative to public affairs , from the year 1641 to 1717. Many volumes are wanting , as appears by the series of numbers ...
... perhaps , for his situation . I lately found in London a collection which he had made of all the principal pamphlets relative to public affairs , from the year 1641 to 1717. Many volumes are wanting , as appears by the series of numbers ...
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... perhaps , be uninteresting to you to know what sort of a man my father was . He had an excellent constitution , was of a middle size , but well made and strong , and extremely active in whatever he undertook . He designed with a degree ...
... perhaps , be uninteresting to you to know what sort of a man my father was . He had an excellent constitution , was of a middle size , but well made and strong , and extremely active in whatever he undertook . He designed with a degree ...
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... perhaps , the name of negligence . To return . I thus continued employed in my father's trade for the space of two years ; that is to say , till I arrived at twelve years of age . About this time my brother John , who had served his ...
... perhaps , the name of negligence . To return . I thus continued employed in my father's trade for the space of two years ; that is to say , till I arrived at twelve years of age . About this time my brother John , who had served his ...
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