Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin FranklinJ. M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1916 - 314 Seiten |
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... wrote to M. le Veillard of his intention to bring out a complete edition of the Works and Correspondence at an early date . Nay more ; he came to England a few weeks later , expressly to arrange this publication . But then a wonderful ...
... wrote to M. le Veillard of his intention to bring out a complete edition of the Works and Correspondence at an early date . Nay more ; he came to England a few weeks later , expressly to arrange this publication . But then a wonderful ...
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... wrote , and no words but his own . So the world really thought for a space of fifty years ; and then there was made that discovery which it is the business of this Preface to make common knowledge henceforth to all the enlightened ...
... wrote , and no words but his own . So the world really thought for a space of fifty years ; and then there was made that discovery which it is the business of this Preface to make common knowledge henceforth to all the enlightened ...
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... wrote to my cherished friend the late William H. Huntington , in Paris , " who seems to have been a man worth living to know . Him he invested with the powers of an Envoy- plenipotentiary , to treat with the present possessors of part ...
... wrote to my cherished friend the late William H. Huntington , in Paris , " who seems to have been a man worth living to know . Him he invested with the powers of an Envoy- plenipotentiary , to treat with the present possessors of part ...
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... wrote sundry small occasional pieces , but only one of them was printed , which I saw now many years since . It was written in 1675 , in the home - spun verse of that time and people , and addressed to those then concerned in the govern ...
... wrote sundry small occasional pieces , but only one of them was printed , which I saw now many years since . It was written in 1675 , in the home - spun verse of that time and people , and addressed to those then concerned in the govern ...
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... wrote and con- vey'd in the same way to the press several more papers which were equally approv'd ; and I kept my secret till my small fund of sense for such per- formances was pretty well exhausted , and then I dis- covered it , when I ...
... wrote and con- vey'd in the same way to the press several more papers which were equally approv'd ; and I kept my secret till my small fund of sense for such per- formances was pretty well exhausted , and then I dis- covered it , when I ...
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