Young Benjamin Franklin, Or, The Right Road Through Life: A Story to Show how Young Benjamin Franklin Learnt the Principles which Raised Him from a Printer's Boy to the First Ambassador of the American Republic ; a Boy's Book on a Boy's Own SubjectDavid Bryce, 1861 - 534 pages |
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Page viii
... brains at the cost of little hearts - to cram with science and to ignore poetry - to force the scholar with a perfect hot - bed of languages , and yet to stunt the worthy with an utter want of principle : in fine , to rear Palmers ...
... brains at the cost of little hearts - to cram with science and to ignore poetry - to force the scholar with a perfect hot - bed of languages , and yet to stunt the worthy with an utter want of principle : in fine , to rear Palmers ...
Page xv
... brain . Even he , then , had somebody to care about him . There was somebody to hug and caress him before he left his home in that scratch wig and fur cap in which we saw him come disguised to Newgate ( for the " roughs " had threatened ...
... brain . Even he , then , had somebody to care about him . There was somebody to hug and caress him before he left his home in that scratch wig and fur cap in which we saw him come disguised to Newgate ( for the " roughs " had threatened ...
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... brain was still so inflamed by the excitement of the wondrous narrative that he could neither speak nor think of anything else , " only let me tell you about what I have been reading -- it's so beauti- ful - and then I'll listen ...
... brain was still so inflamed by the excitement of the wondrous narrative that he could neither speak nor think of anything else , " only let me tell you about what I have been reading -- it's so beauti- ful - and then I'll listen ...
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... brain was hurrying him away its wild crowd of reflections . 66 with Rather it would have been much stranger , Ben , could you have discovered it alone ; for such matters are visible to the mind only , and not to be noted by the mere ...
... brain was hurrying him away its wild crowd of reflections . 66 with Rather it would have been much stranger , Ben , could you have discovered it alone ; for such matters are visible to the mind only , and not to be noted by the mere ...
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... brains much about the object of an excursion so congenial to his heart . So long as the summer waves rushed swiftly as a mill - sluice past the gunwale of the boat , and the hull lay over almost on its side under the pressure of the ...
... brains much about the object of an excursion so congenial to his heart . So long as the summer waves rushed swiftly as a mill - sluice past the gunwale of the boat , and the hull lay over almost on its side under the pressure of the ...
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Young Benjamin Franklin; Or the Right Road Through Life: A Story to Show How ... Henry Mayhew No preview available - 2017 |
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