Benjamin Franklin: His Contribution to the American TraditionBobbs-Merrill, 1953 - 320 pages |
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... conduct , as : " An egg today is better than a hen tomorrow " ; " Be temperate in wine , in eating , girls , and sloth , Or the gout will seize you and plague you both . " Franklin had decided to confine his autobiography to his early ...
... conduct , as : " An egg today is better than a hen tomorrow " ; " Be temperate in wine , in eating , girls , and sloth , Or the gout will seize you and plague you both . " Franklin had decided to confine his autobiography to his early ...
Page 191
... conduct the patient through the distemper . The title page contained a note : " Printed at the expence of the author , to be given away in America . M , DCC , LIX . ” Heberden began his Instructions as follows : Inoculation , as I am ...
... conduct the patient through the distemper . The title page contained a note : " Printed at the expence of the author , to be given away in America . M , DCC , LIX . ” Heberden began his Instructions as follows : Inoculation , as I am ...
Page 284
... conduct of my newspaper , I carefully excluded all libelling and personal abuse , which is of late years become so disgraceful to our country . Whenever I was solicited to insert any thing of that kind , and the writers pleaded , as ...
... conduct of my newspaper , I carefully excluded all libelling and personal abuse , which is of late years become so disgraceful to our country . Whenever I was solicited to insert any thing of that kind , and the writers pleaded , as ...
Contents
PAGE | 27 |
INVENTIONS AND APPLICATIONS OF SCIENCE | 189 |
THE STYLE OF BEING AMERICAN | 225 |
Copyright | |
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