| Benjamin Franklin - Philosophers - 1818 - 566 pages
...house : and my chest of clothes being come by this time, I made rather a more respectable appearance in the eyes of Miss Read, than I had done when she first...pleasantly; and gained money by my industry and frugality. I lived very contented, and forgot Boston as much as I could, and did not wish it should be known where... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...house: and my chest of clothes being come by this time, I made rather a more respectable appearance in the eyes of Miss Read, than I had done when she first...street. I began now to have some acquaintance among the yoang people of the town, that were lovers of reading, with whom I spent my evenings very pleasantly... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...house: and my chest of clothes being come by this time, I made rather a more respectable appearance in the eyes of Miss Read, than I had done when she first...happened to see me eating my roll in the street. I liegan now to have some acquaintance among the young people of the town, that were. lovers of reading,... | |
| Daniel Appleton White - Lyceums - 1830 - 72 pages
...of seventeen, and his early efforts for the improvement of himself and others. " I began, says he, now to have some acquaintance among the young people...reading, with whom I spent my evenings very pleasantly." At the age of twenty-one, he projected his little Lyceum, which led to the institution of the splendid... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...house; and my chest of clothes being come by this time, I made rather a more respectable appearance in the eyes of Miss Read, than I had done when she first...with whom I spent my evenings very pleasantly ; and gamed money by my industry and frugality. I lived very contented, and forgot Boston as much as I could,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...; and, my chest of clothes being come by this time, I made rather a more respectable appearance in the eyes of Miss Read, than I had done when she first happened to see me eating my roll in the street. 1 began now to have some acquaintance among the young people of the town, that were lovers of reading,... | |
| William Andrus Alcott - Conduct of life - 1847 - 510 pages
...and see a doctor, for there is something wrong with him. " I began now," blandly remarks Franklin, " to have some acquaintance among the young people of...; and gained money by my industry and frugality." Or again : " It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection.... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1848 - 676 pages
...; and, my chest of clothes being come by this time, I made rather a more respectable appearance in the eyes of Miss Read, than I had done when she first...pleasantly ; and gained money by my industry and frugality. I lived very contented, and forgot Boston as much as I could, and did not wish it should be known where... | |
| Orville Luther Holley - Inventors - 1848 - 534 pages
...himself long after, " my chest of clothes being come, I made a rather more respectable appearance in the eyes of Miss Read, than I had done, when she first...happened to see me eating my roll in the street." Being now agreeably settled, with sufftcient employment to enable him, by his own industry and frugality,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...house; and, my chest of clothes being come by this time, I made rather a more respectable appearance in the eyes of Miss Read than I had done when she first...pleasantly; and gained money by my industry and frugality. I lived very contented, and forgot Boston as much as I could, and did not wish it should bo known where... | |
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