Works of the Late Doctor Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of His Life, Written by Himself, Together with Essays, Humorous, Moral & Literary, Chiefly in the Manner of The SpectatorP. Wogan, P. Byrne, J. Moore, and W. Jones, 1793 - Всего страниц: 303 |
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... measure , or of different founds for the rhyme , would have obliged me to feck for a variety of fynonymes , and have rendered : me mafter of them . From this belief , I took fome of the tales of the Spectator and turned them into verfe ...
... measure , or of different founds for the rhyme , would have obliged me to feck for a variety of fynonymes , and have rendered : me mafter of them . From this belief , I took fome of the tales of the Spectator and turned them into verfe ...
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... measures I have fug- gefted . And fince the chief ends of converfation are , to inform or to be informed , to please or to perfuade , I could with that intelligent and well- meaning men would not themselves diminifh the power they ...
... measures I have fug- gefted . And fince the chief ends of converfation are , to inform or to be informed , to please or to perfuade , I could with that intelligent and well- meaning men would not themselves diminifh the power they ...
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... measures would be taken to prevent me . My friend Collins undertook to favour my flight . He agreed for my paffage with the captain of a New - York floop , to whom he reprefented me as a young man of his acquaintance , who had had an ...
... measures would be taken to prevent me . My friend Collins undertook to favour my flight . He agreed for my paffage with the captain of a New - York floop , to whom he reprefented me as a young man of his acquaintance , who had had an ...
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... measure . This mode of reasoning I conceived to be unan- fwerable . Meanwhile I had formerly been ex- tremely fond of fish ; and when one of these cod was taken out of the frying - pan , I thought its flavour delicious . I hefitated ...
... measure . This mode of reasoning I conceived to be unan- fwerable . Meanwhile I had formerly been ex- tremely fond of fish ; and when one of these cod was taken out of the frying - pan , I thought its flavour delicious . I hefitated ...
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... of New - England , to the injury of its holders , ftrongly oppofed the measure . We had difcuffed this affair in our junto , in which I was on the fide of the new emiffion ; convinced that the first fide DR . FRANKLIN . 87.
... of New - England , to the injury of its holders , ftrongly oppofed the measure . We had difcuffed this affair in our junto , in which I was on the fide of the new emiffion ; convinced that the first fide DR . FRANKLIN . 87.
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