Selections from American Authors: A Reading Book for School and Home. Franklin, Adams, Cooper, LongfellowSamuel Eliot Taintor Brothers, Merrill & Company, 1879 - 410 pages |
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... friend , It is Peter Folger . " My elder brothers were all put apprentices to dif- ferent trades . I was put to the ... friends , that I should certainly make a good scholar , encouraged him in this purpose of his . My uncle Benjamin ...
... friend , It is Peter Folger . " My elder brothers were all put apprentices to dif- ferent trades . I was put to the ... friends , that I should certainly make a good scholar , encouraged him in this purpose of his . My uncle Benjamin ...
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... friends in my presence , the little encouragement that line of life afforded to those educated for it , he gave up his first intentions , took me from the grammar school , and sent me to a school for writing and arithmetic , kept by a ...
... friends in my presence , the little encouragement that line of life afforded to those educated for it , he gave up his first intentions , took me from the grammar school , and sent me to a school for writing and arithmetic , kept by a ...
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... friend or neighbor to converse with , and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse , which might tend to im- prove the minds of his children . By this means he turned our attention to what was good , just ...
... friend or neighbor to converse with , and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse , which might tend to im- prove the minds of his children . By this means he turned our attention to what was good , just ...
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... friendship . I had caught this by reading my father's books of dispute on religion . Persons of good sense , I have since ob- served , seldom fall into it , except lawyers , university men , and generally men of all sorts who have been ...
... friendship . I had caught this by reading my father's books of dispute on religion . Persons of good sense , I have since ob- served , seldom fall into it , except lawyers , university men , and generally men of all sorts who have been ...
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... friends from the undertaking , as not likely to succeed , one newspaper being in their judgment enough for Amer- ica . At this time ( 1771 ) there are not less than five and twenty . He went on , however , with the under- taking . I was ...
... friends from the undertaking , as not likely to succeed , one newspaper being in their judgment enough for Amer- ica . At this time ( 1771 ) there are not less than five and twenty . He went on , however , with the under- taking . I was ...
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