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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with Introduction and Notes Edited

By: Charles W. Eliot

...The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...graphy of Benjamin Franklin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portabl... ...graphy of Benjamin Franklin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot , the Pennsylva- nia State University, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, H... ...disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the pos session of your error. And by such a manner, you can seldom hope to recommend yourself in... ...in Franklin 36 order to improve by our mutual observations, criticisms, and corrections. As language and expression were what we had in view, we excl... ...ens of an epic poem which he was then composing, and desiring my remarks and corrections. These I gave him from time to time, but endeavor’d rather to... ...not so clever a performance as I once thought it; and I doubted whether some error had not insinuated itself unperceiv’d into my argument, so as to in... ...tructions; how that was brought about I shall show hereafter. * But I am got forward too fast with my story: there are still some transactions to be m... ...nd that, perhaps, without taxing the proprietary estate. Find ing me not so forward to engage as he expected, the project was dropt, and he soon afte...

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