Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...H. Colburn, 1833 |
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... able to discern transactions about the time of , and for the most part after , their happening . My good father , who delighted in the Pilgrim's Progress , and mountainous places , took shipping , with his wife , for Scotland , and ...
... able to discern transactions about the time of , and for the most part after , their happening . My good father , who delighted in the Pilgrim's Progress , and mountainous places , took shipping , with his wife , for Scotland , and ...
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... able , and when absent , is certainly so . Hor . I think not ; but pray explain what you mean ; for I am not much used to this abstract way of reasoning . The Phil . I mean all the pleasures of sense . good of man cannot consist in the ...
... able , and when absent , is certainly so . Hor . I think not ; but pray explain what you mean ; for I am not much used to this abstract way of reasoning . The Phil . I mean all the pleasures of sense . good of man cannot consist in the ...
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Benjamin Franklin. able ; and which , when he cannot taste , he is necessarily so ? Can that be our good , which costs us a great deal of pains to obtain , which cloys in possessing , for which we cannot wait the return of appetite ...
Benjamin Franklin. able ; and which , when he cannot taste , he is necessarily so ? Can that be our good , which costs us a great deal of pains to obtain , which cloys in possessing , for which we cannot wait the return of appetite ...
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... able to know , and determine certainly , what is right and wrong in life ? Phil . As easily as you distinguish a circle from a square , or light from darkness . Look , Horatio , into the sacred book of nature ; read your own nature ...
... able to know , and determine certainly , what is right and wrong in life ? Phil . As easily as you distinguish a circle from a square , or light from darkness . Look , Horatio , into the sacred book of nature ; read your own nature ...
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... able to serve your friends , you will raise your family , you will extend the bounds of your country , you will be known , not only in Athens , but through all Greece , and perhaps your renown will fly even to the barbarous nations , as ...
... able to serve your friends , you will raise your family , you will extend the bounds of your country , you will be known , not only in Athens , but through all Greece , and perhaps your renown will fly even to the barbarous nations , as ...
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