Memoirs of a Life, Chiefly Passed in Pennsylvania, Within the Last Sixty Years: With Occasional Remarks Upon the General Occurrences, Character and Spirit of that Eventful Period |
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... the connection between thrifty youth and respectable age — a kind of practi- cal comment on the useful truths , contained in Poor Richard's almanae , thor : Next to the good fortune of having figured in some MEMOIRS ...
... the connection between thrifty youth and respectable age — a kind of practi- cal comment on the useful truths , contained in Poor Richard's almanae , thor : Next to the good fortune of having figured in some MEMOIRS ...
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... kind , neither as soldier , nor statesman , nor traveller , nor author . He is not wholly without hope , however , that his presumption may be palliated ; and that , in his ob- ject , of giving a representation of the character , spi ...
... kind , neither as soldier , nor statesman , nor traveller , nor author . He is not wholly without hope , however , that his presumption may be palliated ; and that , in his ob- ject , of giving a representation of the character , spi ...
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... kind especially , the vices , which seemed mere habits of the female pa- rent , have invariably descended to her offspring . I venture this remark , though not quite in unison with the tone of the subject ; and though liable to be ...
... kind especially , the vices , which seemed mere habits of the female pa- rent , have invariably descended to her offspring . I venture this remark , though not quite in unison with the tone of the subject ; and though liable to be ...
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... kind , good humored Irishman , from whom I might have learned , that as one thing was cruel big , so another might be cru- el little . In the city , I lived with , and was under the care of my grandfather . The school he first put me to ...
... kind , good humored Irishman , from whom I might have learned , that as one thing was cruel big , so another might be cru- el little . In the city , I lived with , and was under the care of my grandfather . The school he first put me to ...
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... kind of ac- quirement . More profit attended my reading . Af- ter Æsop's fables , and an abridgment of the Roman history , Telemachus was put into our hands ; and if it be admitted that the human heart may be bet- tered by instruction ...
... kind of ac- quirement . More profit attended my reading . Af- ter Æsop's fables , and an abridgment of the Roman history , Telemachus was put into our hands ; and if it be admitted that the human heart may be bet- tered by instruction ...
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