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Benjamin Franklin. shelves down to the ground , and perhaps where one of them has just been making water . My friend takes up the stuff , and cries , " Oh ! thou little wicked mischievous rogue ! But , however , it has done no great ...
Benjamin Franklin. shelves down to the ground , and perhaps where one of them has just been making water . My friend takes up the stuff , and cries , " Oh ! thou little wicked mischievous rogue ! But , however , it has done no great ...
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... perhaps seem ridiculous at first hearing ; but it passes among the Turks for a high gratification ; and I will say this in its vindica- tion , that its design is very wise and useful : for it is understood to give a civil dismission to ...
... perhaps seem ridiculous at first hearing ; but it passes among the Turks for a high gratification ; and I will say this in its vindica- tion , that its design is very wise and useful : for it is understood to give a civil dismission to ...
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... perhaps several cartloads of earth thrown out ; but , alas , no keg or iron pot is found ! no seaman's chest crammed with Spanish pistoles , or weighty pieces of eight ! Then they con- clude , that through some mistake in the procedure ...
... perhaps several cartloads of earth thrown out ; but , alas , no keg or iron pot is found ! no seaman's chest crammed with Spanish pistoles , or weighty pieces of eight ! Then they con- clude , that through some mistake in the procedure ...
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... perhaps some lately opened . Men , otherwise of very good sense , have been drawn into this prac- tice , through an overweening desire of sudden wealth , and an easy credulity of what they so earnestly wished might be true ; while the ...
... perhaps some lately opened . Men , otherwise of very good sense , have been drawn into this prac- tice , through an overweening desire of sudden wealth , and an easy credulity of what they so earnestly wished might be true ; while the ...
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... perhaps getting a cold that may cost their lives , or at least disordering themselves so as to be fit for no business beside for some days after ! Surely this is nothing less than the most egregious folly and madness . I shall conclude ...
... perhaps getting a cold that may cost their lives , or at least disordering themselves so as to be fit for no business beside for some days after ! Surely this is nothing less than the most egregious folly and madness . I shall conclude ...
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