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The Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies - Page 125
1846
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The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [Autobiography

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...
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Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 1

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...
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The works of Benjamin Franklin: with notes and a life of the ..., Volume 1

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...
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The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and ..., Volume 1

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...
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The Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 6

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...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 82

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...
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Containing the Autobiography, with Notes and ...

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...
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Poor Richard's Almanac for 1850-52

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...
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Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions, Volume 2

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...
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Success in life, a book for young men

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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