Works of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of His Life, Written by Himself, Together with Essays, Humorous, Moral & Literary, Chiefly in the Manner of the SpectatorAbbott, 1812 - 301 頁 |
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第 18 頁
... father at length convinced me that nothing which was not strictly honest could be useful . It will not , perhaps , be uninteresting to you to know what sort of a man my father was . He had an ex- cellent constitution , was of a middle ...
... father at length convinced me that nothing which was not strictly honest could be useful . It will not , perhaps , be uninteresting to you to know what sort of a man my father was . He had an ex- cellent constitution , was of a middle ...
第 19 頁
... father complain of any other disorder than that of which they died : my father at the age of eighty - seven , and my mother at eighty - five . They are buried together at Boston , where , a few years ago , I placed a marble over their ...
... father complain of any other disorder than that of which they died : my father at the age of eighty - seven , and my mother at eighty - five . They are buried together at Boston , where , a few years ago , I placed a marble over their ...
第 20 頁
... father's trade for the space of two years ; that is to say , till I arrived at twelve years of age . About this time my brother John , who had served his apprenticeship in London , having quitted my father , and being married and ...
... father's trade for the space of two years ; that is to say , till I arrived at twelve years of age . About this time my brother John , who had served his apprenticeship in London , having quitted my father , and being married and ...
第 21 頁
... father at length decided that I should be a cut- ler , and I was placed for some days upon trial with my cousin Samuel , son of my uncle Benjamin , who had learned this trade in London , and had established himself at Boston , But the ...
... father at length decided that I should be a cut- ler , and I was placed for some days upon trial with my cousin Samuel , son of my uncle Benjamin , who had learned this trade in London , and had established himself at Boston , But the ...
第 22 頁
... father checked my exultation , by ridiculing my produc- tions , and telling me that versifiers were always poor . I thus escaped the misfortune of being , probably , a very wretched poet . But as the faculty of writing prose has been of ...
... father checked my exultation , by ridiculing my produc- tions , and telling me that versifiers were always poor . I thus escaped the misfortune of being , probably , a very wretched poet . But as the faculty of writing prose has been of ...
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