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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15. oldal
... father wifhed to read to his family , he reversed the lid of the clofe - ftool upon his knees , and pai- fed the leaves from one fide to the other , which were held down on each by the pack - thread . One of the children was ftationed ...
... father wifhed to read to his family , he reversed the lid of the clofe - ftool upon his knees , and pai- fed the leaves from one fide to the other , which were held down on each by the pack - thread . One of the children was ftationed ...
16. oldal
... father was prevailed on to accompany them . My father had also by the fame wife four chil- dren born in America , and ten others by a fecond wife , making in all feventeen . I remember to have feen thirteen seated together at his table ...
... father was prevailed on to accompany them . My father had also by the fame wife four chil- dren born in America , and ten others by a fecond wife , making in all feventeen . I remember to have feen thirteen seated together at his table ...
17. oldal
... father destined me for the church , and already regarded me as the chaplain of the family . The promptitude with which from my infancy I had learned to read , for I do not remember to have been ever without this acquirement , and the en ...
... father destined me for the church , and already regarded me as the chaplain of the family . The promptitude with which from my infancy I had learned to read , for I do not remember to have been ever without this acquirement , and the en ...
20. oldal
... father , burthened with a numerous family , found that he was incapable , without fubjecting himself to difficulties , of pro- viding for the expence of a collegiate education , and confidering befides , as I heard him fay to his ...
... father , burthened with a numerous family , found that he was incapable , without fubjecting himself to difficulties , of pro- viding for the expence of a collegiate education , and confidering befides , as I heard him fay to his ...
21. oldal
... father complain of any other diforder than that of which they died : my father at the age of eighty - leven , and mother at eighty - five . They are buried to- C gether at Boston where , a few years ago , DR . FRANKLIN .
... father complain of any other diforder than that of which they died : my father at the age of eighty - leven , and mother at eighty - five . They are buried to- C gether at Boston where , a few years ago , DR . FRANKLIN .
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