Works of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of His Life, Written by Himself, Together with Essays, Humorous, Moral & Literary, Chiefly in the Manner of the SpectatorAbbott, 1812 - 301 pages |
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... English manuscript , and he hopes to be forgiven if this enquiry shall occa- sionlly have subjected him to the charge of a style in any respect bald or low ; to imitate the admirable simplicity of the author , is no easy task . The ...
... English manuscript , and he hopes to be forgiven if this enquiry shall occa- sionlly have subjected him to the charge of a style in any respect bald or low ; to imitate the admirable simplicity of the author , is no easy task . The ...
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... English Bible , and , to conceal it the more se- curely , they conceived the prospect of fastening it , open , with pack - threads across the leaves , on the inside of the lid of a close - stool . When my great - grandfather wish- ed to ...
... English Bible , and , to conceal it the more se- curely , they conceived the prospect of fastening it , open , with pack - threads across the leaves , on the inside of the lid of a close - stool . When my great - grandfather wish- ed to ...
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... English language , which was one of the greatest objects of my ambition . The time which I devoted to these exercises , and to reading , was the evening after my day's labour was finished , the morning before it began , and Sundays when ...
... English language , which was one of the greatest objects of my ambition . The time which I devoted to these exercises , and to reading , was the evening after my day's labour was finished , the morning before it began , and Sundays when ...
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... English Grammar , which I believe was Greenwood's having at the end of it two little essays on rhetoric and logic . In the latter I found a model of disputation after the manner of Socrates , Shortly af- ter I procured Xenophon's work ...
... English Grammar , which I believe was Greenwood's having at the end of it two little essays on rhetoric and logic . In the latter I found a model of disputation after the manner of Socrates , Shortly af- ter I procured Xenophon's work ...
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... English physician , enlarged con- siderably the catalogue of substances which have the property of attracting light bodies . Boyle , Otto Gue- ricke , a burgomaster of Magdeburgh , celebrated as the inventor of the air pump , Dr. Wall ...
... English physician , enlarged con- siderably the catalogue of substances which have the property of attracting light bodies . Boyle , Otto Gue- ricke , a burgomaster of Magdeburgh , celebrated as the inventor of the air pump , Dr. Wall ...
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