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... Franklin , Benjamin , Extracts form the autobiography and other writings of Benjamin Franklin . 1906 . 14.Rosengarten , J.G. The " Franklin papers " in the American philosophical society . 1903 15.Angell , J.B. A memorial discourse on ...
... Franklin , Benjamin , Extracts form the autobiography and other writings of Benjamin Franklin . 1906 . 14.Rosengarten , J.G. The " Franklin papers " in the American philosophical society . 1903 15.Angell , J.B. A memorial discourse on ...
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... Franklin , the Memoirs of Gibbon , the Confessions of Rousseau , the Life of Benvenuto Cellini , - these and such as these are well - under- stood examples of autobiography . II It is a form of writing which seems to have been utterly ...
... Franklin , the Memoirs of Gibbon , the Confessions of Rousseau , the Life of Benvenuto Cellini , - these and such as these are well - under- stood examples of autobiography . II It is a form of writing which seems to have been utterly ...
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... Franklin's autograph ( The Life of Franklin , Writ- ten by Himself . Edited by the Hon . John Bigelow . Fourth edition , Philadelphia 1900 ) . As there is no title or suggestion of a title - word in the body of the text , I sought to ...
... Franklin's autograph ( The Life of Franklin , Writ- ten by Himself . Edited by the Hon . John Bigelow . Fourth edition , Philadelphia 1900 ) . As there is no title or suggestion of a title - word in the body of the text , I sought to ...
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... Franklin . His mother was Sophia Burret Dallas , daughter of Alexander J. Dallas , and sister of George M. Dallas , whose names are well known in the history of this country , the former as Secretary of the Treasury , and the latter as ...
... Franklin . His mother was Sophia Burret Dallas , daughter of Alexander J. Dallas , and sister of George M. Dallas , whose names are well known in the history of this country , the former as Secretary of the Treasury , and the latter as ...
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... Franklin he was , in a certain degree , an object of popular interest , and that on this account something more than an ordinary responsibility rested upon him . On a mind constituted like his an influence of this kind could not but ...
... Franklin he was , in a certain degree , an object of popular interest , and that on this account something more than an ordinary responsibility rested upon him . On a mind constituted like his an influence of this kind could not but ...
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Page 12 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver ; and he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket...
Page 8 - I met a boy with bread. I had made many a meal on bread, and, inquiring where he got it, I went immediately to the baker's he directed me to, in...
Page 8 - Brownell, very successful in his profession generally, and that by mild, encouraging methods. Under him I acquired fair writing pretty soon, but I failed in the arithmetic, and made no progress in it. At ten years old...
Page 8 - I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there. I was in my working dress, my best clothes being to come round by sea.
Page 10 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Page 8 - ... same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales and turned them into verse; and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again.