Benjamin Franklin as a Man of LettersK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1887 - 293 páginas |
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... living was unquestionably Cotton Mather . Yet he is in no sense deserving to be called a man of letters . His pen , indeed , was never idle . Four hundred and twenty - three of his productions are still extant , yet our literature would ...
... living was unquestionably Cotton Mather . Yet he is in no sense deserving to be called a man of letters . His pen , indeed , was never idle . Four hundred and twenty - three of his productions are still extant , yet our literature would ...
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... living a man who has ever beheld such a rover out of the China seas . Early in the eighteenth century the black flag had been seen by scores of captains who went in and out of the colonial ports . From the West Indies , from New ...
... living a man who has ever beheld such a rover out of the China seas . Early in the eighteenth century the black flag had been seen by scores of captains who went in and out of the colonial ports . From the West Indies , from New ...
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... living more than one man who has ever read them through . To liken the essays of Franklin at this period of his life to those of Addison would be absurd ; yet it cannot be denied that they possess merits of a rare and high order . He ...
... living more than one man who has ever read them through . To liken the essays of Franklin at this period of his life to those of Addison would be absurd ; yet it cannot be denied that they possess merits of a rare and high order . He ...
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... living by printing without offending some one , or per- haps many . It was unreasonable for any man , or any set of men , to expect to be pleased with everything put in type . It was unreasonable to suppose that printers approved of ...
... living by printing without offending some one , or per- haps many . It was unreasonable for any man , or any set of men , to expect to be pleased with everything put in type . It was unreasonable to suppose that printers approved of ...
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... living . The wit was low and flat . The little hints were dull . There was nothing smart in the almanac but Hudibras verses against astrology , which no astrologer but a dead one would ever have inserted . As for the rest , no man living ...
... living . The wit was low and flat . The little hints were dull . There was nothing smart in the almanac but Hudibras verses against astrology , which no astrologer but a dead one would ever have inserted . As for the rest , no man living ...
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