| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 páginas
...was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age ; my father intending to devote me, as the tythe of his sons, to the service of the church. My early...a good scholar, encouraged him in this purpose of his. My uncle Benjamin too approved of it, and proposed to give me his short-hand volumes of sermons,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 páginas
...was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age ; my father intending to devote me, as the tythe of his sons, to the service of the church. My early...of all his friends, that I should certainly make a ' In the island of Nantucket. good scholar, encouraged him in this purpose of his. My uncle Benjamin... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 páginas
...service of the church. My early readiness in learning to read (which must have been very early, and I do not remember when I could not read) and the opinion of all my friends, that I should certainly make a good scholar, encouraged him in this purpose of his. My... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 páginas
...Jb'ulg'icr. My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tythe of his sons, to the service of the church. My early readiness in learning to read (which must... | |
| 1818 - 708 páginas
...his father Josiah, not only sent Benjamin to school at eight years old, but intended to devote him " as the tithe of his sons to the service of the church." However, the narrowness of his father's circumstances having prevented this ; at the age of ten he... | |
| 1818 - 590 páginas
...his father Josiah, not only sent Benjamin to school at eight years old, but intended to devote him " as the tithe of his sons to the service of the church." However, the narrowness of his father's circumstances having prevented this; at the age of ten he was... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 páginas
...Folgi'er. My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me as the tythe of his sons, to the service of the church. My early readiness in learning to read, (which must... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 páginas
...Folger." f My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age ; my father intending to devote me, as the tythe of his sons, to the service of the church. • In the island of Nantucket. f The poem, if such... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1848 - 676 páginas
...Folger." f My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age ; my father intending to devote me, as the tythe of his sons, to the service of the church. * In the island of NantuckeU f The poem, if such it... | |
| Orville Luther Holley - 1848 - 522 páginas
...knowledge and other indications of bright parts, prompted a disposition in his father "to devote Benjamin, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the church." With this view, Benjamin, at the age of eight years, was sent to a grammar-school, where his progress... | |
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