 | Benjamin Franklin - 1912 - 274 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...early, as I do not remember when I could not read), 15 and the opinion of all his friends, that I should certainly make a good scholar, encouraged him... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer - 1917 - 816 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... | |
 | Norma Helen Deming, Katharine Isabel Bemis, K. I. Bemis - 1918 - 200 Seiten
...age, my father intending to devote me to the service of the Church. My early readiness in learning to read, and the opinion of all his friends that I should...Benjamin, too, approved of it, and proposed to give me all his sermons, I suppose as a stock to set up with. I continued, however, at the grammar school not... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 Seiten
...years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church. m not more sure that I breathe than I am that the letter is not at the Hotel all his short-hand volumes of sermons, I suppose as a stock to set up with, if I would leam his character.*... | |
 | Mary Ann Radzinowicz - 1984 - 300 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...Friends that I should certainly make a good Scholar, encourag'd him in this Purpose of his. My Uncle Benjamin too approv'd of it, and propos'd to give me... | |
 | Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner - 1997 - 1146 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...Friends that I should certainly make a good Scholar, encourag'd him in this Purpose of his. My Uncle Benjamin too approv'd of it, and propos'd to give me... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1923 - 454 Seiten
...years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tythe 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.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1998 - 404 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...Friends that I should certainly make a good Scholar, encourag'd him in this Purpose of his. My Uncle Benjamin too approv'd of it, and propos'd to give me... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2003 - 588 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 shorthand volumes of sermons, I suppose as a stock to set up with, if I would learn his character.... | |
 | Princeton Review (Firm) - 2004 - 269 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... | |
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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... 
