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Even so , it is possible to study what Franklin said and thought and did and to see him a defender of the rights and principles that were upheld the founders of our country : as a representative of the high ideals of the eighteenth ...
Even so , it is possible to study what Franklin said and thought and did and to see him a defender of the rights and principles that were upheld the founders of our country : as a representative of the high ideals of the eighteenth ...
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... and then I discovered it ; when I began to be considered a little more by my brother's acquaintance , and in a manner that did not quite please him , as he thought , probably with reason , that it tended to make me too vain .
... and then I discovered it ; when I began to be considered a little more by my brother's acquaintance , and in a manner that did not quite please him , as he thought , probably with reason , that it tended to make me too vain .
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But a Quaker friend having kindly informed me that I was generally thought proud ; that my pride showed itself frequently in conversation ; that I was not content with being in the right when discussing any point , but was overbearing ...
But a Quaker friend having kindly informed me that I was generally thought proud ; that my pride showed itself frequently in conversation ; that I was not content with being in the right when discussing any point , but was overbearing ...
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | 27 |
THE LESSONS OF EXPERIENCE | 68 |
SELFIMPROVEMENT AND MUTUAL | 112 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Benjamin Franklin: His Contribution to the American Tradition Makers of the American tradition series |
| Author | I. Bernard Cohen |
| Publisher | Bobbs-Merrill, 1953 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 21 Aug 2006 |
| Length | 320 pages |
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