Benjamin Franklin: His Contribution to the American TraditionBobbs-Merrill, 1953 - 320 pages |
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... father's father before him , could not long survive in the New World , where a man had to adapt himself to the realities of the situation in which he found himself , to find a way of life consistent with the data of experience that made ...
... father's father before him , could not long survive in the New World , where a man had to adapt himself to the realities of the situation in which he found himself , to find a way of life consistent with the data of experience that made ...
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... father in the mean time , from a view of the expence of a college education which , having so large a family , he could not well afford , and the mean living many so educated were afterwards able to obtain , ( reasons that he gave to ...
... father in the mean time , from a view of the expence of a college education which , having so large a family , he could not well afford , and the mean living many so educated were afterwards able to obtain , ( reasons that he gave to ...
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... father at last fixed upon the cutler's trade , and my Uncle Ben- jamin's son Samuel , who was bred to that business in London , being about that time established in Boston , I was sent to be with him some time on liking . But his ...
... father at last fixed upon the cutler's trade , and my Uncle Ben- jamin's son Samuel , who was bred to that business in London , being about that time established in Boston , I was sent to be with him some time on liking . But his ...
Contents
PAGE | 27 |
IN THE SERVICE OF THE COMMUNITY | 164 |
INVENTIONS AND APPLICATIONS OF SCIENCE | 189 |
Copyright | |
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