Benjamin Franklin as a Man of LettersK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1887 - 293 páginas |
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... began his education at home ; was sent when he was eight to the Latin School , and soon after to that of George Brownell , a pedagogue famed for his skill in arithmetic and the use of the quill . To this school he went regularly till ...
... began his education at home ; was sent when he was eight to the Latin School , and soon after to that of George Brownell , a pedagogue famed for his skill in arithmetic and the use of the quill . To this school he went regularly till ...
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John Bach McMaster. boys to make pot - hooks and loops , and began to teach women to make new - fashioned purses and to paint on glass , to do feather - work and fili- gree and embroider a new way , to put Turkey work on handkerchiefs ...
John Bach McMaster. boys to make pot - hooks and loops , and began to teach women to make new - fashioned purses and to paint on glass , to do feather - work and fili- gree and embroider a new way , to put Turkey work on handkerchiefs ...
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... began to read , a printing - press was a “ raree show . " Neither in New Hampshire , nor Rhode Island , nor New Jersey , nor Delaware had such a thing been seen . He was three years old be- fore a type was set in Connecticut . He was ...
... began to read , a printing - press was a “ raree show . " Neither in New Hampshire , nor Rhode Island , nor New Jersey , nor Delaware had such a thing been seen . He was three years old be- fore a type was set in Connecticut . He was ...
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... began to 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 ...
... began to 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 ...
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... began to preach , and is now remembered for the support he gave to inoculation , to the witch- craft delusion of 1692 , and to the censorship of the press James Franklin and his apprentice Benjamin did so much to destroy . It was in ...
... began to preach , and is now remembered for the support he gave to inoculation , to the witch- craft delusion of 1692 , and to the censorship of the press James Franklin and his apprentice Benjamin did so much to destroy . It was in ...
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