Benjamin Franklin as a Man of LettersK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1887 - 293 páginas |
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... never opened on the Sabbath . Behind the barrier was a maze of narrow streets , lined with buildings most of which have long since disappeared . On the site of the Old South Church stood a wooden meeting - house , pulled down in 1729 ...
... never opened on the Sabbath . Behind the barrier was a maze of narrow streets , lined with buildings most of which have long since disappeared . On the site of the Old South Church stood a wooden meeting - house , pulled down in 1729 ...
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... never come into the hands of bookbinders to be reclothed . There were , Mather's " Essay to do Good , " and Defoe's " Essay on Projects , " Plutarch's " Lives , " the only readable book in the collec- tion , and a pile of thumbed and ...
... never come into the hands of bookbinders to be reclothed . There were , Mather's " Essay to do Good , " and Defoe's " Essay on Projects , " Plutarch's " Lives , " the only readable book in the collec- tion , and a pile of thumbed and ...
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... forty volumes of Bur- ton's " Historical Collections ' were secured . The bent of his mind was now unmistakable . He stood in no danger of going to sea ; he did " " not need his uncle's sermons ; he would never be 8 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN .
... forty volumes of Bur- ton's " Historical Collections ' were secured . The bent of his mind was now unmistakable . He stood in no danger of going to sea ; he did " " not need his uncle's sermons ; he would never be 8 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN .
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... never idle . Four hundred and twenty - three of his productions are still extant , yet our literature would have suffered no loss if every one of them had perished . Everything that he left is of value , but the value is of that kind ...
... never idle . Four hundred and twenty - three of his productions are still extant , yet our literature would have suffered no loss if every one of them had perished . Everything that he left is of value , but the value is of that kind ...
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... never before existed . Notwithstanding this travel , the road when Franklin used it ran for miles through an unin- habited country . The almanacs , which were the road - books of that day , make mention of but four places where a ...
... never before existed . Notwithstanding this travel , the road when Franklin used it ran for miles through an unin- habited country . The almanacs , which were the road - books of that day , make mention of but four places where a ...
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