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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... hundred and sixty . The details given here are the bare literalities noted by the author only a few months back , and printed in his account of the metropolitan prisons in that wretched frag- ment of a well - meant scheme , the " Great ...
... hundred and sixty . The details given here are the bare literalities noted by the author only a few months back , and printed in his account of the metropolitan prisons in that wretched frag- ment of a well - meant scheme , the " Great ...
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... hundred islands that dappled the blue expanse of water round about the city . Steering had been the boy's first exercise of power , and the pleasure the little cockswain had felt in making the boat answer as readily as his own muscles ...
... hundred islands that dappled the blue expanse of water round about the city . Steering had been the boy's first exercise of power , and the pleasure the little cockswain had felt in making the boat answer as readily as his own muscles ...
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... hundreds of miles . A canvas - back duck , indeed , is reckoned one of the greatest dainties in the States , being more delicate in flavour than a wild duck , though considerably larger . The Americans eat it with currant - jelly , as ...
... hundreds of miles . A canvas - back duck , indeed , is reckoned one of the greatest dainties in the States , being more delicate in flavour than a wild duck , though considerably larger . The Americans eat it with currant - jelly , as ...
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... hundred - acre farm " of the young Lord Halifax now ? And did the Nonconformists seem con- tented with the " Toleration Act ? " and was there any stir among them about getting the Cor- poration Act " repealed ? And was Squire Palmer's ...
... hundred - acre farm " of the young Lord Halifax now ? And did the Nonconformists seem con- tented with the " Toleration Act ? " and was there any stir among them about getting the Cor- poration Act " repealed ? And was Squire Palmer's ...
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... hundred and one things required at her hands . On the table before her lay a small lot of brown worsted stockings done up into balls that resembled so many unwashed potatoes , and new canvas smocks for the boys to work in ( short as ...
... hundred and one things required at her hands . On the table before her lay a small lot of brown worsted stockings done up into balls that resembled so many unwashed potatoes , and new canvas smocks for the boys to work in ( short as ...
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