| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 pages
...an Essay on Projects, and another of Dr. Mather's, called an Essay to do good, which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life. This bookish inclination at length determined my father -to make me a printer though he had... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 pages
...Essay on Projects, atod another of Dr. Mather's, called an Estay to do good, which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life. This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make me a printer, though he had... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...Essay on Projects, and another of Dr. Mather's, called Jin Essay to do Good, which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking, that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life. This bookish inclination at length determined my father to- make me a printer, though he had... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 668 pages
...An Essay on Projects, and another of Dr. Mather's, called An Essay to do Good, which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking, that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life. This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make me a printer, though he had... | |
| 1845 - 608 pages
...DE FOE. his uncle's house, ' a book of De Foe's, called an Essay on Projects, which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life.' He composed the Essay here; though it was not published until two years later. What the tendency... | |
| 1845 - 718 pages
...library in his uncle's house, ' a book of De Foe's, called an Essay ' on Projects, which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had ' an influence on some of the principal future events of my life.' He composed the Essay here; though it was not published until two years later. What the tendency... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1848 - 676 pages
...Essay on Projects, and another of Dr. Mather's, called Jin Essay to do Good, which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking, that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life. This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make me a printer, though he had... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1849 - 78 pages
...an Essay on Projects, and another of Dr. Mather's, called an Essay to do Good, which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life. This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make me a printer, though he had... | |
| Edward Everett - 1850 - 716 pages
...Projects, and Cotton Mather's Essay to do good ; " which," says the autobiography, " perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life." This fondness for books at length determined the father for the trade of a printer, although... | |
| Success - 1851 - 362 pages
...Essay on Projects, and another of Dr. Matthews', called, An Essay to do Good, which, perhaps, gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the future events of my life." It was this " bookish inclination" that decided the father to make Benjamin... | |
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