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... shilling's - worth of copper , which he paid for his fare , and a single dollar . " I walked , " he observes , " towards the top of the street , looking eagerly on both sides , till I came to Market - street , where I met a child with a ...
... shilling's - worth of copper , which he paid for his fare , and a single dollar . " I walked , " he observes , " towards the top of the street , looking eagerly on both sides , till I came to Market - street , where I met a child with a ...
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... did not prevent him from drinking his accustomed quantity of beer , and paying every Saturday night a 66 score of four or five shillings a week for 25 LIFE OF DR FRANKLIN . 33 Franklin was born to be a revolutionist, in many ...
... did not prevent him from drinking his accustomed quantity of beer , and paying every Saturday night a 66 score of four or five shillings a week for 25 LIFE OF DR FRANKLIN . 33 Franklin was born to be a revolutionist, in many ...
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... shillings a week for this cursed beverage ; an expence from which I was wholly ex- empt . Thus do these poor devils continue all their lives in a state of voluntary wretchedness and poverty . My example prevailed with several of them to ...
... shillings a week for this cursed beverage ; an expence from which I was wholly ex- empt . Thus do these poor devils continue all their lives in a state of voluntary wretchedness and poverty . My example prevailed with several of them to ...
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... shilling a week , provided their improvement in the typographic art should merit it . This future increase of wages was the bait he had made use of to ensnare them . Meredith was to work at the press , and Potts to bind books , which he ...
... shilling a week , provided their improvement in the typographic art should merit it . This future increase of wages was the bait he had made use of to ensnare them . Meredith was to work at the press , and Potts to bind books , which he ...
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... shillings , which Franklin says gave him more pleasure than any equal sum he afterwards earned ; and the gratitude which he felt on this occasion , inclined him , oftener than he should have been otherwise disposed , to assist beginners ...
... shillings , which Franklin says gave him more pleasure than any equal sum he afterwards earned ; and the gratitude which he felt on this occasion , inclined him , oftener than he should have been otherwise disposed , to assist beginners ...
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