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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... pieces addressed to his friends . He had invented a short - hand , which he taught me , but having never made use of it , I have now forgotten it . He was a man of piety , and a constant attendant on the best preachers , whose sermons ...
... pieces addressed to his friends . He had invented a short - hand , which he taught me , but having never made use of it , I have now forgotten it . He was a man of piety , and a constant attendant on the best preachers , whose sermons ...
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... pieces ; but there appears to be only one in print , which I met with many years ago . It was published in the year 1675 , and is in familiar verse , agreeably to the taste of the times and the coun- try . The author addresses himself ...
... pieces ; but there appears to be only one in print , which I met with many years ago . It was published in the year 1675 , and is in familiar verse , agreeably to the taste of the times and the coun- try . The author addresses himself ...
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... pieces . My brother , thinking he might find his account in it , encouraged me , and engaged me to write two ballads . One , called the Light - house Tragedy , contained an account of the shipwreck of captain Worthilake and his two ...
... pieces . My brother , thinking he might find his account in it , encouraged me , and engaged me to write two ballads . One , called the Light - house Tragedy , contained an account of the shipwreck of captain Worthilake and his two ...
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... piece , I placed it at night under the door of the printing - house , where it was found the next morning . My ... pieces , which were equally approved : keeping the se- cret till my slender stock of information and knowledge for such ...
... piece , I placed it at night under the door of the printing - house , where it was found the next morning . My ... pieces , which were equally approved : keeping the se- cret till my slender stock of information and knowledge for such ...
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... pieces our rotten sails , prevented us from entering the Kill , and threw us upon Long Island . During the squall , a drunken Dutchman , who like myself was a passenger in the boat , fell into the sea . At the moment that he was sinking ...
... pieces our rotten sails , prevented us from entering the Kill , and threw us upon Long Island . During the squall , a drunken Dutchman , who like myself was a passenger in the boat , fell into the sea . At the moment that he was sinking ...
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