 There was another bookish lad in the town, John Collins by name, with whom I was intimately acquainted. We sometimes disputed, and very fond we were of argument, and very desirous of confuting one another, which disputatious turn, by the way, is apt to...  Heroes of science. Physicistsby William Garnett - 1885Snippet view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...you how in such a situation, I acquired what little ability I may be supposed to have in that way. There was another bookish lad in the town, John Collins...apt to become a very bad habit, making people often extremely disagreeable in company, by the contradiction that is necessary to bring it into practice;... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...how in such a situation, I acquired what little ability I may be supposed to have in that way. • There was another bookish lad in the town, John Collins...were of argument, and very desirous of confuting one anbther, which disputatious turn, by the way, is apt to become a very bad habit, making people pften... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...you how in such a situation, I accquired what little ability I may be supposed to have in that way. There was another bookish lad in the town, John Collins...apt to become a very bad habit, making people often extremely disagreeable in company, by the contradiction that is necessary to bring it into practice... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1834 - 500 pages
...consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read." " There was another bookish Ltd in the town, John Collins by name, with whom I was...argument, and very desirous of confuting one another." " I had caught this by reading my father's books of dispute on religion." " While I was intent on improving... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...tell you how in such a situation I acquired what little ability I may be supposed to have in that way. There was another bookish lad in the town, John Collins...apt to become a very bad habit, making people often extremely disagreeable in company, by the contradiction that is necessary to bring it into practice... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1848 - 676 pages
...tell you how in such a situation I acquired what little ability I may be supposed to have in that way. There was another bookish lad in the town, John Collins...apt to become a very bad habit, making people often extremely disagreeable in company, by the contradiction that is necessary to bring it into practice... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...tell you how in such a situation I acquired what little ability I may be supposed to have in that way. There was another bookish lad in the town, John Collins...apt to become a very bad habit, making people often extremely disagreeable in company, by the contradiction that is necessary to bring it into practice;... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...you how, in such a situation, I acquired what little ability I may be supposed to have in that way. There was another bookish lad in the town, John Collins...apt to become a very bad habit, making people often extremely disagreeable in company, by the contradiction that is necessary to bring it into practice... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1855 - 522 pages
...be supposed to have in that way. \ There was another bookish lad in the town, John Collins by jname, with whom I was intimately acquainted. We sometimes...apt to become a very ba'd habit, making people often extremely disagreeable in company, by the contradiction that is necessary to bring it into practice... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1856 - 670 pages
...tell you how in such a situation I acquired what little ability I may be supposed to have in that way. There was another bookish lad in the town, John Collins...turn, by the way, is apt to become a very bad habit, malting people often extremely disagreeable in company, by the contradiction that is necessary to bring... | |
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