Benjamin Franklin as a Man of LettersHoughton, Mifflin, 1887 - 293 páginas |
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... shillings paid out in board and let him board himself , by putting in prac- tice a theory of vegetable diet , by refusing meat and fish , eating bread and biscuit , and so say- ing a little even of the pittance . Thus equipped ...
... shillings paid out in board and let him board himself , by putting in prac- tice a theory of vegetable diet , by refusing meat and fish , eating bread and biscuit , and so say- ing a little even of the pittance . Thus equipped ...
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... shillings a year . And well he might , for so sprightly and entertain- ing a newspaper did not exist anywhere else in the colonies . But for this prosperity James Franklin was soon to pay dearly . The very act by which he evaded the ...
... shillings a year . And well he might , for so sprightly and entertain- ing a newspaper did not exist anywhere else in the colonies . But for this prosperity James Franklin was soon to pay dearly . The very act by which he evaded the ...
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... shillings would furnish charms to lay the guardian spirit and name the auspicious night , and dupes ever ready to give the shillings and make the at- tempt . Day after day they would wander through the woods watching the flight of birds ...
... shillings would furnish charms to lay the guardian spirit and name the auspicious night , and dupes ever ready to give the shillings and make the at- tempt . Day after day they would wander through the woods watching the flight of birds ...
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... shillings , passed from hand to hand . But so far were they from supplying the needs of trade that the men of Chester besought the Assembly to make pro- duce a legal tender , to prohibit the exportation of coin , and to add one more ...
... shillings , passed from hand to hand . But so far were they from supplying the needs of trade that the men of Chester besought the Assembly to make pro- duce a legal tender , to prohibit the exportation of coin , and to add one more ...
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... shilling was added to the dol- lar ; produce was made a legal tender , and the best of all forms of colonial paper money was emitted . The bank was limited to fifteen thou- sand pounds ; four thousand to pay the debts of the province ...
... shilling was added to the dol- lar ; produce was made a legal tender , and the best of all forms of colonial paper money was emitted . The bank was limited to fifteen thou- sand pounds ; four thousand to pay the debts of the province ...
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