 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 pages
...time I made a great progress in the business, and became a useful hand to my brother. I now had access to better books. An acquaintance with the apprentices...careful to return soon and clean. Often I sat up in my chamber, reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 pages
...sometimes to borrow a small one, which I was careful to return soon and clean. Often I sat up in my chamber the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening to be returned in the morning, lest it should be found missing. After some time a merchant, an ingenious... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 pages
...time I made a great progress in the business, and became a useful hand to my brother. I now had access to better books. An acquaintance with the apprentices...careful to return soon and clean. Often I sat up in my chamber the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening to be returned in... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 666 pages
...to borrow a small one, which I was careful to return soon, and clean. Often I sat up in my chamber reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned in the morning, lest it should be found missing. After some time a merchant, an ingenious, sensible... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...time I made a great progress in the business, and became a useful hand to my brother. I now had access to better books. An acquaintance with the apprentices...careful to return soon, and clean. Often I sat up in my chamber reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 664 pages
...time I made a great progress in the business, and became a useful hand to my brother. I now had access to better books. An acquaintance with the apprentices...careful to return soon, and clean. Often I sat up in my chamber reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1848 - 676 pages
...time I made a great progress in the business, and became a useful hand to my brother. I now had access to better books. An acquaintance with the apprentices...careful to return soon, and clean. Often I sat up in my chamber reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - 1848 - 522 pages
...obtained, and promptly returning them in good condition. "Often," says he, "I sat up in my chamber reading the greatest part- of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening to be returned in the morning, lest it should be found missing;" and he further relates that he was... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1849 - 78 pages
...time I made a great progress in the business, and became a useful hand to my brother. I had now access to better books. An acquaintance with the apprentices...careful to return soon and clean. Often I sat up in my chamber the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening to be returned in... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1859 - 872 pages
...thus by constraint become a printer, his great consolation was, as he says, that " I now had access to better books. An acquaintance with the apprentices...careful to return soon and clean. Often I sat up in my chamber reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and was to... | |
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Often I sat up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted. 
