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... present generation , it is believed , are aware of the position which Franklin really occupied during the twenty years preceding our revolu- tionary struggle , or of the high rank he held as a public man , and the extent to which the ...
... present generation , it is believed , are aware of the position which Franklin really occupied during the twenty years preceding our revolu- tionary struggle , or of the high rank he held as a public man , and the extent to which the ...
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... present a more complete , though still a compendious view of Franklin's life , character , and labors — of what he was , as well as what he did , throughout his entire career- than has yet been furnished in a merely biographical form ...
... present a more complete , though still a compendious view of Franklin's life , character , and labors — of what he was , as well as what he did , throughout his entire career- than has yet been furnished in a merely biographical form ...
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... present reckoning of time or the new style , in the year 1706. His father , Josiah Franklin , was a native of the village of Ecton , in Northamptonshire , England ; but he married his first wife , at an early age , in Banbury , in the ...
... present reckoning of time or the new style , in the year 1706. His father , Josiah Franklin , was a native of the village of Ecton , in Northamptonshire , England ; but he married his first wife , at an early age , in Banbury , in the ...
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... present opinions . Modest and sensible men , who do not love disputation , will leave you undisturbed in the possession of your errors . In adopting such a manner , you can seldom expect to please your hearers , or to obtain the ...
... present opinions . Modest and sensible men , who do not love disputation , will leave you undisturbed in the possession of your errors . In adopting such a manner , you can seldom expect to please your hearers , or to obtain the ...
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... present at the conversation . " But , to return to the condition of the voyagers , which was by no means free from peril — the surf ran so high on the Long island beach , and the tempest was so violent , that the boat's company could ...
... present at the conversation . " But , to return to the condition of the voyagers , which was by no means free from peril — the surf ran so high on the Long island beach , and the tempest was so violent , that the boat's company could ...
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