Memoirs of the Life & Writings of Benjamin FranklinJ.M. Dent & sons Limited, 1913 - 314 Seiten |
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... never before seen any of them . I bought it , read it over and over , and was much delighted with it . I thought the writing excellent , and wished , if possible , to imitate it . With this view I took some of the papers , and , making ...
... never before seen any of them . I bought it , read it over and over , and was much delighted with it . I thought the writing excellent , and wished , if possible , to imitate it . With this view I took some of the papers , and , making ...
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... never proceeded far in that science . And I read about this time Locke on Human Under- standing , and the Art of Thinking , by Messrs du Port Royal . While I was intent on improving my language , I met with an English grammar ( I think ...
... never proceeded far in that science . And I read about this time Locke on Human Under- standing , and the Art of Thinking , by Messrs du Port Royal . While I was intent on improving my language , I met with an English grammar ( I think ...
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... never using , when I advanced anything that may possibly be disputed , the words certainly , undoubtedly , or any others that give the air of positiveness to an opinion ; but rather say , I con- ceive or apprehend a thing to be so and ...
... never using , when I advanced anything that may possibly be disputed , the words certainly , undoubtedly , or any others that give the air of positiveness to an opinion ; but rather say , I con- ceive or apprehend a thing to be so and ...
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... never left home . I cut so miser- able a figure , too , that I found , by the questions ask'd me , I was suspected to be some runaway servant , and in danger of being taken up on that suspicion . However , I proceeded the next day , and ...
... never left home . I cut so miser- able a figure , too , that I found , by the questions ask'd me , I was suspected to be some runaway servant , and in danger of being taken up on that suspicion . However , I proceeded the next day , and ...
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... never was . At his house I lay that night , and the next morn- ing reach'd Burlington , but had the mortification to find that the regular boats were gone a little before my coming , and no other expected to go before Tuesday , this ...
... never was . At his house I lay that night , and the next morn- ing reach'd Burlington , but had the mortification to find that the regular boats were gone a little before my coming , and no other expected to go before Tuesday , this ...
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