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Benjamin Franklin Nathan Gerson Goodman. by the Assembly a committee to attend the press , and take care that no more ... attended , brought with him a friend or two for company . My mind having been much more improv'd by reading than ...
Benjamin Franklin Nathan Gerson Goodman. by the Assembly a committee to attend the press , and take care that no more ... attended , brought with him a friend or two for company . My mind having been much more improv'd by reading than ...
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... attended any public worship , I had still an opinion of its propriety , and of its utility when rightly con- ducted , and I regularly paid my annual subscription for the support of the only Presbyterian minister or meeting we had in ...
... attended any public worship , I had still an opinion of its propriety , and of its utility when rightly con- ducted , and I regularly paid my annual subscription for the support of the only Presbyterian minister or meeting we had in ...
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... attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated ; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in ... attend the re- mainder is in the hand of Providence ; but , if they arrive , the reflection on past happiness enjoy'd ...
... attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated ; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in ... attend the re- mainder is in the hand of Providence ; but , if they arrive , the reflection on past happiness enjoy'd ...
Contents
DOGOOD PAPERS | 184 |
PREFACE TO POOR RICHARDS ALMANACK 1733 | 198 |
PREFACE TO POOR RICHARDS ALMANACK 1758 | 205 |
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