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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... hand of providence , have proved fo eminently fuccessful . They may alfo , fhould they ever be placed in a fimilar fituation , derive fome advan- tage from my narritive . When I reflect , as I frequently do , upon the felicity I have ...
... hand of providence , have proved fo eminently fuccessful . They may alfo , fhould they ever be placed in a fimilar fituation , derive fome advan- tage from my narritive . When I reflect , as I frequently do , upon the felicity I have ...
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... hand is our destiny , and who can make our very afflictions fubfervient to our benefit . One of my uncles , defirous , like myself , of col- lecting anecdotes of our family , gave me fom notes , from which I have derived many particu ...
... hand is our destiny , and who can make our very afflictions fubfervient to our benefit . One of my uncles , defirous , like myself , of col- lecting anecdotes of our family , gave me fom notes , from which I have derived many particu ...
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... hands of a fecond - hand bookfeller , who , knowing me by having fold me fome books , brought it to me . My uncle , it feems , had left it behind him on his departure for America , about fifty years ago , I found va- rious notes of his ...
... hands of a fecond - hand bookfeller , who , knowing me by having fold me fome books , brought it to me . My uncle , it feems , had left it behind him on his departure for America , about fifty years ago , I found va- rious notes of his ...
20. oldal
... hand of his invention , if I would take the pains to learn it . I remained however scarcely a year at grammar fchool , although , in this fhort interval , I had rifen from the middle to the head of my clafs , from thence to the clafs ...
... hand of his invention , if I would take the pains to learn it . I remained however scarcely a year at grammar fchool , although , in this fhort interval , I had rifen from the middle to the head of my clafs , from thence to the clafs ...
23. oldal
... hand , and to conftruct small machines for my experiments , while the idea I have conceived has been fresh and ftrongly impreffed on my imagination . ୮ My father at length decided that I fhould be a cutler , and I was placed for fome ...
... hand , and to conftruct small machines for my experiments , while the idea I have conceived has been fresh and ftrongly impreffed on my imagination . ୮ My father at length decided that I fhould be a cutler , and I was placed for fome ...
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