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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... sure in the amusement . He knew he was neglecting his work for it ; he knew , too , that his half - Puritan father regarded disobedience as the prime cause of all error , so that playing at such a time was , after all , but sorry ...
... sure in the amusement . He knew he was neglecting his work for it ; he knew , too , that his half - Puritan father regarded disobedience as the prime cause of all error , so that playing at such a time was , after all , but sorry ...
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... sure it was very kind of the captain , " little Ben would reply , " to make me such a nice present ; but he always brings every one of us something at the end of each voyage . I can't talk to you , though , just now , mother ; for if I ...
... sure it was very kind of the captain , " little Ben would reply , " to make me such a nice present ; but he always brings every one of us something at the end of each voyage . I can't talk to you , though , just now , mother ; for if I ...
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... sure to demand of Ben- jamin an account of his day's work . She was about to snatch the book from the boy's hands , and remove the cottons and the rushes out of sight , when suddenly the voice of the father , calling for Benjamin to ...
... sure to demand of Ben- jamin an account of his day's work . She was about to snatch the book from the boy's hands , and remove the cottons and the rushes out of sight , when suddenly the voice of the father , calling for Benjamin to ...
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... sure he did everything he possibly could , " he would mutter to himself , as he whim- pered between the words ; " and he thought it very cruel of them to force him to keep to that filthy , nasty candle - making , when they knew he ...
... sure he did everything he possibly could , " he would mutter to himself , as he whim- pered between the words ; " and he thought it very cruel of them to force him to keep to that filthy , nasty candle - making , when they knew he ...
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... sure awaited him on the morrow . Yet it was strange , he mused , his father had not called him down even to put the shutters up . Who had closed the shop ? he wondered . They must have done supper by this time . Yes ! that was the ...
... sure awaited him on the morrow . Yet it was strange , he mused , his father had not called him down even to put the shutters up . Who had closed the shop ? he wondered . They must have done supper by this time . Yes ! that was the ...
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