The Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Now First Collected and Arranged: With Memories of His Early Life, Volume 1 |
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... continued in the episcopal church . My father , Josias , married early in life . He went , with his wife and three children , to New England , about the year 1682. Conventicles being at that time prohibited by law , and frequently ...
... continued in the episcopal church . My father , Josias , married early in life . He went , with his wife and three children , to New England , about the year 1682. Conventicles being at that time prohibited by law , and frequently ...
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... that I am growing old . But we do not dress for a private com- pany as for a formal ball . This deserves , perhaps , the name of negligence . Το To return . I thus continued employed in my fa LIFE OF DR . FRANKLIN . 13.
... that I am growing old . But we do not dress for a private com- pany as for a formal ball . This deserves , perhaps , the name of negligence . Το To return . I thus continued employed in my fa LIFE OF DR . FRANKLIN . 13.
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With Memories of His Early Life Benjamin Franklin. To return . I thus continued employed in my fa ther's trade for the space of two years ; that is to say , till I arrived at twelve years of age . About ... continued employed in my fa ...
With Memories of His Early Life Benjamin Franklin. To return . I thus continued employed in my fa ther's trade for the space of two years ; that is to say , till I arrived at twelve years of age . About ... continued employed in my fa ...
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... continued to make verses . The continual need of words of the same meaning , but of different lengths for the measure , or of different sounds for the rhyme , would have obliged me to seek for a variety of sy- nonymes , and have ...
... continued to make verses . The continual need of words of the same meaning , but of different lengths for the measure , or of different sounds for the rhyme , would have obliged me to seek for a variety of sy- nonymes , and have ...
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... continued to employ for some years ; but I afterwards abandoned it by degrees , retaining only the habit of expressing myself with modest diffi- dence , and never making use , when I advanced any proposition which might be controverted ...
... continued to employ for some years ; but I afterwards abandoned it by degrees , retaining only the habit of expressing myself with modest diffi- dence , and never making use , when I advanced any proposition which might be controverted ...
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