The Life of Benjamin Franklin: With Many Choice Anecdotes and Admirable Sayings of This Great Man, Never Before Published by Any of His Biographers (Classic Reprint)

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Fb&c Limited, Mar 14, 2017 - 266 pages
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This worthy Franklin wore a purse of silk Fix'd to his girdle, pure as morning milk. Km ht of the shire; first Justice of th' assize', To elp the poor, the doubtful td advise In all employments; gen'toos just he prov'd, Renown'd for courtesy; by all belov'd.

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