The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral, and Literary : with His Life |
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... master , and succeeded very well in his profession by employing gentle means only , and such as were calculated to encourage his scholars . Under him , I soon acquired an excellent hand ; but I failed in arithmetic , and made therein no ...
... master , and succeeded very well in his profession by employing gentle means only , and such as were calculated to encourage his scholars . Under him , I soon acquired an excellent hand ; but I failed in arithmetic , and made therein no ...
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... master of them . From this belief , I took some of the tales of the Spectator and turned them into verse ; and , after a time , when I had sufficiently forgotten them , I again converted them into prose . Sometimes also I mingled all my ...
... master of them . From this belief , I took some of the tales of the Spectator and turned them into verse ; and , after a time , when I had sufficiently forgotten them , I again converted them into prose . Sometimes also I mingled all my ...
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... 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 Under- standing , and the Art of Thinking , by Messrs . Du Port Royal . While labouring to form ...
... 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 Under- standing , and the Art of Thinking , by Messrs . Du Port Royal . While labouring to form ...
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... was pretty com- pletely exhausted , when I made myself known . My brother , upon this discovery , began to entertain a little more respect for me ; but he still regarded him . self as my master , and treated me as an DR . FRANKLIN . 27.
... was pretty com- pletely exhausted , when I made myself known . My brother , upon this discovery , began to entertain a little more respect for me ; but he still regarded him . self as my master , and treated me as an DR . FRANKLIN . 27.
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... master , and treated me as an apprentice . He thought himself entitled to the same services from me as from any ... master's secrets . The imprisonment of my brother kindled ny re- sentment , notwithstanding our private quarrels . Dur ...
... master , and treated me as an apprentice . He thought himself entitled to the same services from me as from any ... master's secrets . The imprisonment of my brother kindled ny re- sentment , notwithstanding our private quarrels . Dur ...
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