Benjamin Franklin as a Man of LettersHoughton, Mifflin, 1887 - 293 páginas |
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... biography , of essay and fiction , the languages of ten civilized nations can afford . When Frank- lin began to read , a printing - press was a " raree show . " Neither in New Hampshire , nor Rhode Island , nor New Jersey , nor Delaware ...
... biography , of essay and fiction , the languages of ten civilized nations can afford . When Frank- lin began to read , a printing - press was a " raree show . " Neither in New Hampshire , nor Rhode Island , nor New Jersey , nor Delaware ...
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... biography . But , in the notes and memo- randa jotted down by Franklin when about to write the “ Autobiography , " he claims the Do- good papers as his own . They are clearly Franklin's work ; and so well did the lad catch the spirit ...
... biography . But , in the notes and memo- randa jotted down by Franklin when about to write the “ Autobiography , " he claims the Do- good papers as his own . They are clearly Franklin's work ; and so well did the lad catch the spirit ...
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... biographical dictionaries . Pemberton promised to introduce the lad to Isaac Newton , but the opportunity never served . Irreligious , lewd , saving to very meanness , yet a spendthrift and a waste - all , the boy had now reached a ...
... biographical dictionaries . Pemberton promised to introduce the lad to Isaac Newton , but the opportunity never served . Irreligious , lewd , saving to very meanness , yet a spendthrift and a waste - all , the boy had now reached a ...
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... biography as he could get , and that he used for this purpose a sketch by Henry Stuber , of Philadelphia . Stuber was a young man of great promise . Before he was sixteen he was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania , began the ...
... biography as he could get , and that he used for this purpose a sketch by Henry Stuber , of Philadelphia . Stuber was a young man of great promise . Before he was sixteen he was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania , began the ...
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... biography had been made public as Franklin wrote at Twyford in 1771. But in 1798 a new edition was issued at Paris , with much of the second part composed in 1784 at Passy . Even this encroachment on his literary prop- erty could not ...
... biography had been made public as Franklin wrote at Twyford in 1771. But in 1798 a new edition was issued at Paris , with much of the second part composed in 1784 at Passy . Even this encroachment on his literary prop- erty could not ...
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