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... late Mr. Forhers By richsen & jern , wie 31.2.2 By equal . Thares at To a Legacy began thed by the lab £ 1000.0 11.18 head 45. 13. 4 wth Files To Mr Fisher weaning dinier between wredom ! Janas , valued at 0.6 $ 111.0.6 131 more al 9 ...
... late Mr. Forhers By richsen & jern , wie 31.2.2 By equal . Thares at To a Legacy began thed by the lab £ 1000.0 11.18 head 45. 13. 4 wth Files To Mr Fisher weaning dinier between wredom ! Janas , valued at 0.6 $ 111.0.6 131 more al 9 ...
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... late Governor under His Britannick Majelly , of the Province of New Jorfoy Compelled the adverfe Circumftaners of the Times to part from the Hufend the loved and at length deprived of the fosthing Hope of his freedy Return she funk ...
... late Governor under His Britannick Majelly , of the Province of New Jorfoy Compelled the adverfe Circumftaners of the Times to part from the Hufend the loved and at length deprived of the fosthing Hope of his freedy Return she funk ...
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... late war , which is of public notoriety , will account for my leaving him no more of an estate he endeavoured to deprive me of . ” The affection which Franklin no longer gave to his son he transferred to William's illegitimate child ...
... late war , which is of public notoriety , will account for my leaving him no more of an estate he endeavoured to deprive me of . ” The affection which Franklin no longer gave to his son he transferred to William's illegitimate child ...
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... late suppers that the fashion of early dining then . made customary . " Dine with little , sup with less : Do better still ; sleep supperless , " he recommends ; for , " Eat few suppers and you'll need few medicines . " In the same vein ...
... late suppers that the fashion of early dining then . made customary . " Dine with little , sup with less : Do better still ; sleep supperless , " he recommends ; for , " Eat few suppers and you'll need few medicines . " In the same vein ...
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... late in life : " My Christian brother , be kind and benevolent like God , and do not spoil his good work . He made wine to gladden the heart of men ; do not , therefore , when at table you see your neighbor pour wine into his glass , be ...
... late in life : " My Christian brother , be kind and benevolent like God , and do not spoil his good work . He made wine to gladden the heart of men ; do not , therefore , when at table you see your neighbor pour wine into his glass , be ...
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Página 109 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the coppers.
Página 113 - We have had some experience of it : several of our young people were formerly brought up at the colleges of the northern provinces ; they were instructed in all your sciences ; but when they came back to us, they were bad runners ; ignorant of every means of living in the woods; unable to bear either cold or hunger; knew neither how to build a cabin, take a deer, or kill an enemy ; spoke our language imperfectly ; were therefore neither fit for hunters, warriors, nor counsellors ; they were totally...
Página 393 - Don't give too much for the whistle ; and I saved my money.
Página 143 - AB, profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ, his Eternal Son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit, one God, blessed for evermore ; and do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration.
Página 90 - Tryon's manner of preparing some of his dishes, such as boiling potatoes or rice, making hasty pudding, and a few others, and then proposed to my brother, that if he would give me, weekly, half the money he paid for my board, I would board myself. He instantly agreed to it, and I presently found that I could save half what he paid me.
Página 220 - By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.
Página 217 - Tragedy, and contained an account of the drowning of Captain Worthilake, with his two daughters ; the other was a sailor's song, on the taking of Teach (or Blackbeard), the pirate.
Página 220 - I took some of the tales and turned them into verse ; and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. I also sometimes jumbled my collections of hints into confusion, and after some weeks endeavored to reduce them into the best order, before I began to form the full sentences and compleat the paper.
Página 170 - Here is my creed. I believe in one God, the creator of the universe. That He governs it by His providence. That He ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable service we render to Him is doing good to His other children. That the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this.
Página 221 - During my brother's confinement, which I resented a good deal, notwithstanding our private differences, I had the management of the paper; and I made bold to give our rulers some rubs in it, which my brother took very kindly, while others began to consider me in an unfavorable light, as a young genius that had a turn for libelling and satire.