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Benjamin Franklin Nathan Gerson Goodman. then we had a small breeze that was fair for half an hour , when it was succeeded by a calm again . Saturday , August 6. — This morning we had a fair breeze for some hours , and then a calm that ...
Benjamin Franklin Nathan Gerson Goodman. then we had a small breeze that was fair for half an hour , when it was succeeded by a calm again . Saturday , August 6. — This morning we had a fair breeze for some hours , and then a calm that ...
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... fair wind . Every one puts on a clean shirt and a cheerful countenance , and we begin to be very good company . Heaven grant that this favourable gale may continue ! for we have had so much of turning to windward , that the word helm ...
... fair wind . Every one puts on a clean shirt and a cheerful countenance , and we begin to be very good company . Heaven grant that this favourable gale may continue ! for we have had so much of turning to windward , that the word helm ...
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... fair wind . " On either side the parted billows flow , While the black ocean foams and roars below . " Sunday , September 25. - Last night we shot ahead of our consort pretty far . About midnight , having lost sight of each other , we ...
... fair wind . " On either side the parted billows flow , While the black ocean foams and roars below . " Sunday , September 25. - Last night we shot ahead of our consort pretty far . About midnight , having lost sight of each other , we ...
Contents
DOGOOD PAPERS | 184 |
PREFACE TO POOR RICHARDS ALMANACK 1733 | 198 |
PREFACE TO POOR RICHARDS ALMANACK 1758 | 205 |
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