The Works of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin;: Consisting of His Life Written by Himself: : Together with Essays Humorous, Moral, and Literary; Chiefly in the Manner of the Spectator, 1. kötetJohn Tiebout, no. 358 Pearl-Street., 1799 - 139 oldal |
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... agreed that I fhould ferve as apprentice to the age of twenty - one , and fhould receive journeyman's wages only during the last year . In a very fhort time I made great proficiency in this business , and became very ferviccable to my ...
... agreed that I fhould ferve as apprentice to the age of twenty - one , and fhould receive journeyman's wages only during the last year . In a very fhort time I made great proficiency in this business , and became very ferviccable to my ...
37. oldal
... agreed for my paffage with the Captain of a New - York floop , to whom he represented me as a young man of his acquaintance , who had had an - affair with a girl of bad character , whose pa- rents wished to compel me to marry her , and ...
... agreed for my paffage with the Captain of a New - York floop , to whom he represented me as a young man of his acquaintance , who had had an - affair with a girl of bad character , whose pa- rents wished to compel me to marry her , and ...
63. oldal
... agreed to this little artifice , and immediately tranfcribed the verfes to prevent all fufpicion . We met . Watfon's performance was the firft that was read . It had fome beauties , but many faults . We next read Ofborne's , which was ...
... agreed to this little artifice , and immediately tranfcribed the verfes to prevent all fufpicion . We met . Watfon's performance was the firft that was read . It had fome beauties , but many faults . We next read Ofborne's , which was ...
64. oldal
... agreed with me and told Ralph he was no more able to criticise than he was able to write . When Osborne was alone with me , he expreffed himself still more ftrongly in favour of what he confidered as my performance . He pretended he had ...
... agreed with me and told Ralph he was no more able to criticise than he was able to write . When Osborne was alone with me , he expreffed himself still more ftrongly in favour of what he confidered as my performance . He pretended he had ...
66. oldal
... agreed for the whole cabin , fo that Ralph and I were obliged to take up our lodging with the crew . Being unknown to every body in the ship , we were looked upon as the common order of people : but Mr. Hamilton and his fon ( it was ...
... agreed for the whole cabin , fo that Ralph and I were obliged to take up our lodging with the crew . Being unknown to every body in the ship , we were looked upon as the common order of people : but Mr. Hamilton and his fon ( it was ...
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