 | Thomas Harrison Montgomery - 1900 - 578 páginas
...he records in his autobiography.1 I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age ; my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons,...the church. My early readiness in learning to read [he continues], (which must have been very early, as I do not remember when I could not read,) and... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart, Blanche Evans Hazard - 1902 - 268 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 354 páginas
...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,...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 - 1905 - 238 páginas
...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,...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.... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, George Rice Carpenter, Katherine Bowditch Owens - 1906 - 520 páginas
...different trades. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of 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 certainly make 5 a good scholar, encouraged him in... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1907 - 686 páginas
...(nee Franklin). before he went to his first school, for he says that his readiness in learning to read must have been very early "as I do not remember when I could not read." His sister speaks of him as a Bible reader at five years old. When still very young reading was a confirmed... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1908 - 430 páginas
...apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school 2 at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons,...a good scholar, encouraged him in this purpose of 1 The name Sherburne was later changed to Nantucket. 2 The grammar school stood on School Street, Boston,... | |
 | William B. Cairns - 1909 - 528 páginas
...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,...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 woujd learn his character.... | |
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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... 
