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... appeared on the Continent , one at Weimar in 1794 , and one at Paris in 1798. J. Johnson and Longman were the ... appearance of the Autobiography as actually written by Franklin , and the first printing of the narrative from 1731 to 1757 ...
... appeared on the Continent , one at Weimar in 1794 , and one at Paris in 1798. J. Johnson and Longman were the ... appearance of the Autobiography as actually written by Franklin , and the first printing of the narrative from 1731 to 1757 ...
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... appearance of plate and China in our house , which afterward , in a course of years , as our wealth increas'd ... appeared to me unintelligible , others doubtful , and I early absented myself from the public assemblies of the sect ...
... appearance of plate and China in our house , which afterward , in a course of years , as our wealth increas'd ... appeared to me unintelligible , others doubtful , and I early absented myself from the public assemblies of the sect ...
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... appeared a rainbow in a western cloud , to windward of us . The first time I ever saw a rainbow in the night , caused by the moon . Wednesday , August 31. - Wind still west ; nothing remark- able . Thursday , Sept. 1. - Bad weather ...
... appeared a rainbow in a western cloud , to windward of us . The first time I ever saw a rainbow in the night , caused by the moon . Wednesday , August 31. - Wind still west ; nothing remark- able . Thursday , Sept. 1. - Bad weather ...
Contents
DOGOOD PAPERS | 184 |
PREFACE TO POOR RICHARDS ALMANACK 1733 | 198 |
PREFACE TO POOR RICHARDS ALMANACK 1758 | 205 |
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