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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... weeks endeavored to reduce them into the best order before I began to form the full sentences and complete the subject . This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts . By comparing my work with the orig- inal , I ...
... weeks endeavored to reduce them into the best order before I began to form the full sentences and complete the subject . This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts . By comparing my work with the orig- inal , I ...
Page 27
... weekly half the money he paid for my board , I would board myself . He instantly agreed to it , and I pres- ently found that I could save half what he paid me . This was an additional fund for buying of books ; but I had another ...
... weekly half the money he paid for my board , I would board myself . He instantly agreed to it , and I pres- ently found that I could save half what he paid me . This was an additional fund for buying of books ; but I had another ...
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... was the Boston News - Letter ( 1704 ) ; the second , the Boston Gazette ( 1719 ) ; the third , the American Weekly Mercury ( Philadelphia , 1719 ) . paper , which gained it credit and made it more 30 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN .
... was the Boston News - Letter ( 1704 ) ; the second , the Boston Gazette ( 1719 ) ; the third , the American Weekly Mercury ( Philadelphia , 1719 ) . paper , which gained it credit and made it more 30 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN .
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... week . I have since kept several lents most strictly , leaving the common diet for that , and that for the common , abruptly , without the least inconvenience , so that I think there is little in the advice of making those changes by ...
... week . I have since kept several lents most strictly , leaving the common diet for that , and that for the common , abruptly , without the least inconvenience , so that I think there is little in the advice of making those changes by ...
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... week ; as much as we could then afford . He found some relations , but they were poor , and unable to assist him ... weekly paper like the Spectator , " on certain conditions ; which Roberts did not approve . Then he endeavored to get ...
... week ; as much as we could then afford . He found some relations , but they were poor , and unable to assist him ... weekly paper like the Spectator , " on certain conditions ; which Roberts did not approve . Then he endeavored to get ...
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