The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral, and Literary, with His LifeS. Andrus and Son, 1847 - 304 pages |
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... perhaps , by this employment , gratify my vanity , scarce- ly indeed have I ever heard or read the intro- ductory phrase , “ I may say without vanity , ” but some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately followed ...
... perhaps , by this employment , gratify my vanity , scarce- ly indeed have I ever heard or read the intro- ductory phrase , “ I may say without vanity , ” but some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately followed ...
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... perhaps for his situation . I lately found in London a collec- tion 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 collec- tion 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 your to know what sort of a man my father was.- He had an excellent constitution , was of a mid- dle size , but well made and strong , and extreme- ly active in whatever he undertook . He design- ed with a ...
... perhaps , be uninteresting to your to know what sort of a man my father was.- He had an excellent constitution , was of a mid- dle size , but well made and strong , and extreme- ly active in whatever he undertook . He design- ed with a ...
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... perhaps , the name of negligence . To return . Í 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 ser- ved his ...
... perhaps , the name of negligence . To return . Í 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 ser- ved his ...
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... em- ployed the time I devoted to them . I found be- sides a work of de Foe's entitled , An Essay on Projects , from which , perhaps , I derived impres- sions that have since influenced some of the prin- cipal LIFE OF FRANKLIN . 21.
... em- ployed the time I devoted to them . I found be- sides a work of de Foe's entitled , An Essay on Projects , from which , perhaps , I derived impres- sions that have since influenced some of the prin- cipal LIFE OF FRANKLIN . 21.
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