The Select Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including His AutobiographyPhillips, Sampson, 1857 - 488 pages |
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... called , of the territory ceded to their ancestor . Such is the graceful and unaffected candor of Franklin's style , that his story is ever best told in his own words . " His confessions of his faults , " says Sainte Beuve , " have an ...
... called , of the territory ceded to their ancestor . Such is the graceful and unaffected candor of Franklin's style , that his story is ever best told in his own words . " His confessions of his faults , " says Sainte Beuve , " have an ...
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... called into requi- sition in drawing up reports and representations in reply to the Proprietaries and their advocates ; and , at last , having showed himself more than a match for the writers on the other side , the Assembly sent him as ...
... called into requi- sition in drawing up reports and representations in reply to the Proprietaries and their advocates ; and , at last , having showed himself more than a match for the writers on the other side , the Assembly sent him as ...
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... called a Chinese shoe , and disputing earnestly about the manner of wearing it , and how it could possibly be put on , put in her word , and said , modestly . Gentlemen , are you sure it is a shoe ! Should not that be settled first ...
... called a Chinese shoe , and disputing earnestly about the manner of wearing it , and how it could possibly be put on , put in her word , and said , modestly . Gentlemen , are you sure it is a shoe ! Should not that be settled first ...
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... called here to - day a great luminary of the learned world . Far be it from me to detract from the merit I admire . Let him still shine , but without wrapping his country in flames . Let him , from a private station , from a smaller ...
... called here to - day a great luminary of the learned world . Far be it from me to detract from the merit I admire . Let him still shine , but without wrapping his country in flames . Let him , from a private station , from a smaller ...
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... called forth one unani- mous voice of reprobation and protest from the Colonies . The act had been most strenuously opposed by Franklin ; but he was subjected , notwithstanding his efforts against it , to charges of having given it his ...
... called forth one unani- mous voice of reprobation and protest from the Colonies . The act had been most strenuously opposed by Franklin ; but he was subjected , notwithstanding his efforts against it , to charges of having given it his ...
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