From Printing Office to the Court of St. James: The Boyhood and Manhood of Benjamin FranklinHodder and Stoughton, 1890 - 380 strani |
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... knew that , and every one else who was familiar with him . The first money he ever had to spend as he wished was on a holiday when he was seven years old . It was not the Fourth of July , when torpedoes and fire - crackers scare horses ...
... knew that , and every one else who was familiar with him . The first money he ever had to spend as he wished was on a holiday when he was seven years old . It was not the Fourth of July , when torpedoes and fire - crackers scare horses ...
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... knew before . Perhaps the toy - shop was first in his mind , into which he had looked wistfully many times as he passed , and perhaps it was not . We say toy- shop , though it was not such a toy - shop as Boston has to - day , where ...
... knew before . Perhaps the toy - shop was first in his mind , into which he had looked wistfully many times as he passed , and perhaps it was not . We say toy- shop , though it was not such a toy - shop as Boston has to - day , where ...
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... knew a miser , who gave up every kind of comfort- able living , all the pleasure of doing good to others , all the esteem of his fellow - citizens , and the joys of benevolent friendship , for the sake of accumulating wealth , Poor man ...
... knew a miser , who gave up every kind of comfort- able living , all the pleasure of doing good to others , all the esteem of his fellow - citizens , and the joys of benevolent friendship , for the sake of accumulating wealth , Poor man ...
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... knew him . Nothing but poverty hindered the adoption and execution of that plan . : " Uncle Benjamin's " letter did this , however it hastened a favourable decision , though Benjamin was eight years old when his parents decided that he ...
... knew him . Nothing but poverty hindered the adoption and execution of that plan . : " Uncle Benjamin's " letter did this , however it hastened a favourable decision , though Benjamin was eight years old when his parents decided that he ...
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... knew either my father or mother to have any sickness , but that of which they died — he at eighty - nine , and she at eighty - five years of age . They lie buried together at Boston , where I some years since placed a marble over their ...
... knew either my father or mother to have any sickness , but that of which they died — he at eighty - nine , and she at eighty - five years of age . They lie buried together at Boston , where I some years since placed a marble over their ...
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acquaintance added Benjamin answered Benjamin appearance apprentice became Benjamin Franklin Benjamin read better Boston Bradford brother called Captain Homes Coleman continued Benjamin Cotton Mather Courant Deborah Read Denham Doctor doubt drink England England Courant enterprise exclaimed expected father favour give glad Governor Keith hand heart honour hundred improve Increase Mather inquired interest James James Franklin jamin John Collins Josiah Franklin Keimer knew lived matter Meredith mother never opinion Osborne paper Perhaps Philadelphia Pilgrim's Progress poet poetry printer printer-boy printing house printing office Quaker Ralph religion replied Benjamin responded Benjamin sail Silence Dogood sloop Socratic method soon spoke suggested suppose surprised swimming talents thing thought took town trade Uncle Benjamin Watts whistle write wrote York young youth