Benjamin Franklin as a Man of LettersHoughton, Mifflin, 1887 - 293 páginas |
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... Lives , " the only readable book in the collec- tion , and a pile of thumbed and dog - eared pam- phlets on polemical theology such as any true son of the dissenting church might read ; such as those in which Increase Mather and Solomon ...
... Lives , " the only readable book in the collec- tion , and a pile of thumbed and dog - eared pam- phlets on polemical theology such as any true son of the dissenting church might read ; such as those in which Increase Mather and Solomon ...
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... live on rice , potatoes , and hasty- pudding . He read Xenophon's " Memorabilia , " and ever after used the Socratic method of dis- pute ; he read Shaftesbury and Collins , and be- came a skeptic ; he read a volume of Addison , and ...
... live on rice , potatoes , and hasty- pudding . He read Xenophon's " Memorabilia , " and ever after used the Socratic method of dis- pute ; he read Shaftesbury and Collins , and be- came a skeptic ; he read a volume of Addison , and ...
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... live - geese feathers , bohea tea , coffee , very good sack , and cash for old rags . Everything connected with this miscellaneous business was carried on in strict accordance with the maxims of Poor Richard . No idle servant fattened ...
... live - geese feathers , bohea tea , coffee , very good sack , and cash for old rags . Everything connected with this miscellaneous business was carried on in strict accordance with the maxims of Poor Richard . No idle servant fattened ...
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... live and write long after Poor Richard Saunders and his almanac were dead and forgotten . This reply was precisely what Franklin expected , and in the preface to Poor Richard for 1734 the public is assured that , thanks to 104 BENJAMIN ...
... live and write long after Poor Richard Saunders and his almanac were dead and forgotten . This reply was precisely what Franklin expected , and in the preface to Poor Richard for 1734 the public is assured that , thanks to 104 BENJAMIN ...
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... live on the shores of Hudson Bay and under the Tropic of Cancer . The humor of the almanacs is by no means confined to the prefaces . The books abound in wit and in wit noticeable for its modern character PREFACES TO POOR RICHARD . 109.
... live on the shores of Hudson Bay and under the Tropic of Cancer . The humor of the almanacs is by no means confined to the prefaces . The books abound in wit and in wit noticeable for its modern character PREFACES TO POOR RICHARD . 109.
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