Benjamin Franklin: His Contribution to the American TraditionBobbs-Merrill, 1953 - 320 pages |
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Page 44
... living conditions of most men in that time , but neither Voltaire nor Diderot ever worked as Franklin did to es- tablish a hospital or to found a school to teach trades to orphans and free Negroes . This is the practical Franklin being ...
... living conditions of most men in that time , but neither Voltaire nor Diderot ever worked as Franklin did to es- tablish a hospital or to found a school to teach trades to orphans and free Negroes . This is the practical Franklin being ...
Page 47
... living conditions of most men in that time , but neither Voltaire nor Diderot ever worked as Franklin did to es- tablish a hospital or to found a school to teach trades to orphans and free Negroes . This is the practical Franklin being ...
... living conditions of most men in that time , but neither Voltaire nor Diderot ever worked as Franklin did to es- tablish a hospital or to found a school to teach trades to orphans and free Negroes . This is the practical Franklin being ...
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... living many so educated were afterwards able to obtain , ( reasons that he gave to his friends in my hearing ) altered his first in- tention , took me from the grammar school , and sent me to a school for writing and arithmetic kept by ...
... living many so educated were afterwards able to obtain , ( reasons that he gave to his friends in my hearing ) altered his first in- tention , took me from the grammar school , and sent me to a school for writing and arithmetic kept by ...
Contents
PAGE | 27 |
INVENTIONS AND APPLICATIONS OF SCIENCE | 189 |
THE STYLE OF BEING AMERICAN | 225 |
Copyright | |
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