 | Benjamin Franklin - 1896 - 130 Seiten
...years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church. My early readiness in learning to read (which must...not read), and the opinion of all his friends that I 1 On the island of Nantucket. should certainly make a good scholar, encouraged him in this purpose... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1896 - 250 Seiten
...years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church. My early readiness in learning to read (which must have been very early, as 1 do not remember when I could not read), and the opinion of all his friends that I 1 On the island... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, Edward Cornelius Towne, George Henry Warner - 1897 - 656 Seiten
...years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church. My early readiness in learning to read (which must...Benjamin too approved of it, and proposed to give me all his short-hand volumes of sermons, — I suppose as a stock to set up with, — if I would learn... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1899 - 204 Seiten
...years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church. My early readiness in learning to read (which must...Benjamin, too, approved of it, and proposed to give me all his short-hand volumes of sermons, I suppose as a stock to set up with, if I would learn his character.... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1899 - 554 Seiten
...and during his whole life he was an omnivorous devourer of books. In his autobiography he mentions " my early readiness in learning to read, which must...early, as I do not remember when I could not read." The taste was the more remarkable when the literature at his • command is considered. From the inventory... | |
 | 1899 - 1012 Seiten
...and during his whole life he was an omnivorous devourer of books. In his autobiography he mentions " my early readiness in learning to read, which must...early, as I do not remember when I could not read." The taste was the more remarkable when the literature at his command is considered. From the inventory... | |
 | Thomas Harrison Montgomery - 1900 - 584 Seiten
...tithe of his sons, to the service of the church. My early readiness in learning to read [he continues], (which must have been very early, as I do not remember...Benjamin, too, approved of it, and proposed to give me all his short-hand volumes of sermons, I suppose as a stock to set up with, if I would learn his character.... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart, Blanche Evans Hazard - 1902 - 268 Seiten
...intending as an offering to God, to make me a minister of the church. My readiness in learning to read must have been very early as I do not remember when I could not read. Later my father sent me to a school for writing and arithmetic. I learned good writing pretty soon... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1902 - 272 Seiten
...intending as an offering to God, to make me a minister of the church. My readiness in learning to read must have been very early as I do not remember when I could not read. Later my father sent me to a school for writing and arithmetic. I learned good writing pretty soon... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1903 - 358 Seiten
...years of age, my father intending to devote me as the tithe of his sons to the service of the Church. My early readiness in learning to read, which must...good scholar, encouraged him in this purpose of his. I continued, however, at the grammar school rather less than a year, though in that time I had risen... | |
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My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the church. My early readiness in learning to read (which... 
