Benjamin Franklin as a Man of LettersK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1887 - 293 páginas |
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... study electricity ; his scientific papers ; the Albany Plan of Union ; " Dialogue between X , Y , Z ; " is sent to London by the Assembly of Pennsylvania 136-167 CHAPTER VI . 1756-1764 . Political writings while in London ; the ...
... study electricity ; his scientific papers ; the Albany Plan of Union ; " Dialogue between X , Y , Z ; " is sent to London by the Assembly of Pennsylvania 136-167 CHAPTER VI . 1756-1764 . Political writings while in London ; the ...
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... study - floor , fasting , weeping , praying , calling on the name of God . By the time he was forty , even such mortification was not enough for him , and he began to keep vigils ; then he would leave his bed at the dead of night , fall ...
... study - floor , fasting , weeping , praying , calling on the name of God . By the time he was forty , even such mortification was not enough for him , and he began to keep vigils ; then he would leave his bed at the dead of night , fall ...
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... study arrangement of thought . Then he would put down his notes in any order , and after a while seek to rearrange the sentences in the order of the essay . Next he fell to reading books on navigation and arith- metic , rhetoric and ...
... study arrangement of thought . Then he would put down his notes in any order , and after a while seek to rearrange the sentences in the order of the essay . Next he fell to reading books on navigation and arith- metic , rhetoric and ...
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... study . The title is , " Father Abraham's Speech to a great number of people , at a Vendue of Merchants ' Goods ; introduced to the public by Poor Richard ( a famous Pennsylvanian con- jurer and almanac - maker ) , in answer to the fol ...
... study . The title is , " Father Abraham's Speech to a great number of people , at a Vendue of Merchants ' Goods ; introduced to the public by Poor Richard ( a famous Pennsylvanian con- jurer and almanac - maker ) , in answer to the fol ...
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... study of elec- tricity . No study , he declared in a letter writ- ten in 1747 , had ever before so completely taken up his attention and his time . What with making experiments by himself , and re- peating them before friends who came ...
... study of elec- tricity . No study , he declared in a letter writ- ten in 1747 , had ever before so completely taken up his attention and his time . What with making experiments by himself , and re- peating them before friends who came ...
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