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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with Introduction and Notes Edited

By: Charles W. Eliot

...iography of Benjamin Franklin 9 My name I do put here; Without offense your real friend, It is Peter Folgier.” My elder brothers were all put apprent... ...d lovingly together in wedlock fifty five years. Without an estate, or any gainful employment, By constant labor and industr... ...nd doubter. And being then, from reading Shaftesbury and Collins, be come a real doubter in many points of our religious doc trine, I found this met... ...ose now that I was rather lucky in my judges, and that perhaps they were not really so very good ones as I then esteem’d them. Encourag’d, however, by... ...of setting a boy up in business who wanted yet three years of being at man’s estate. Holmes said what he could in favor of the project, but my father ... ... as might be done in those circumstances. Accordingly, she had given all her estate to charitable uses, reserving only twelve pounds a year to live on... ...y waggon, team, or other horse in the ser vice, the price according to such valuation is to be allowed and paid. 4. Seven days’ pay is to be advanced... ...ir march for the camp. The advertise ment promised payment according to the valuation, in case any waggon or horse should be lost. The owners, howeve... ...aggons and horses was gener ally known, all the owners came upon me for the valuation which I had given bond to pay. Their demands gave me a great de...

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