Benjamin Franklin as a Man of LettersHoughton, Mifflin, 1887 - 293 páginas |
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... keep him on shore . Like a man of sense , the father tried to find the lad's bent , took him on long walks about town , went among the bricklayers and the 1 One of the sermons taken down in this way is yet extant . The title is , " A ...
... keep him on shore . Like a man of sense , the father tried to find the lad's bent , took him on long walks about town , went among the bricklayers and the 1 One of the sermons taken down in this way is yet extant . The title is , " A ...
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... keep thirty vigils and sixty fasts , and still have time for persecuting witches , was nothing un- usual for him to do in a year . The habit of starving the body to purify the soul he adopted when a lad of fourteen , and in the fifty ...
... keep thirty vigils and sixty fasts , and still have time for persecuting witches , was nothing un- usual for him to do in a year . The habit of starving the body to purify the soul he adopted when a lad of fourteen , and in the fifty ...
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... keep vigils ; then he would leave his bed at the dead of night , fall prostrate on the floor of his library , and spend the hours of darkness " wrestling with God " and getting " unutterable commu- nications from Heaven . " The simplest ...
... keep vigils ; then he would leave his bed at the dead of night , fall prostrate on the floor of his library , and spend the hours of darkness " wrestling with God " and getting " unutterable commu- nications from Heaven . " The simplest ...
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... keep the pathway in repair . The favored road across the province was that from Perth Town to Burlington , on the Delaware , and was , as early as 1707 , wide enough for a wagon to pass without scraping the hubs on the trees . In that ...
... keep the pathway in repair . The favored road across the province was that from Perth Town to Burlington , on the Delaware , and was , as early as 1707 , wide enough for a wagon to pass without scraping the hubs on the trees . In that ...
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... keep books , sell goods , learn the secrets of mercantile af- fairs , and was fast becoming a merchant , when his employer died , and he was forced to earn his bread as foreman of Keimer's establishment . His duty at Keimer's was to ...
... keep books , sell goods , learn the secrets of mercantile af- fairs , and was fast becoming a merchant , when his employer died , and he was forced to earn his bread as foreman of Keimer's establishment . His duty at Keimer's was to ...
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