Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards: Selections from Their WritingsC. Scribner's Sons, 1920 - 368 pages |
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Page xvii
... once for all the secular aspira- tions which might have hindered him in his career as the last High Priest of American Calvinism . He threw in his fortunes with those of Connecticut's ancient creed , and that in the very year in which ...
... once for all the secular aspira- tions which might have hindered him in his career as the last High Priest of American Calvinism . He threw in his fortunes with those of Connecticut's ancient creed , and that in the very year in which ...
Page xx
... Atlantic to be combined and reincarnated in Poor Richard . It was his intense reality which commended him to those who saw in him a fellow - citizen . He uttered what they at once knew for their own thoughts , XX INTRODUCTION.
... Atlantic to be combined and reincarnated in Poor Richard . It was his intense reality which commended him to those who saw in him a fellow - citizen . He uttered what they at once knew for their own thoughts , XX INTRODUCTION.
Page xxi
... once knew for their own thoughts , in what they suddenly discovered would have been their own language if they could have said such things at all . He was a plain man who kept a shop and had humorous tiffs with Bridget his wife ; who ...
... once knew for their own thoughts , in what they suddenly discovered would have been their own language if they could have said such things at all . He was a plain man who kept a shop and had humorous tiffs with Bridget his wife ; who ...
Page 19
... once hint such a Thing , I am afraid she would resent it so as never to darken my Door again . " But alas , Sir , I have not yet told you half my Affliction . She has two Children , that are just big enough to run about and do pretty ...
... once hint such a Thing , I am afraid she would resent it so as never to darken my Door again . " But alas , Sir , I have not yet told you half my Affliction . She has two Children , that are just big enough to run about and do pretty ...
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... once thus infatuated , he is so far from being discouraged by ill Success , that he is rather animated to double his Industry , and will try again and again in a Hundred Different Places , in Hopes at last of meeting with some lucky Hit ...
... once thus infatuated , he is so far from being discouraged by ill Success , that he is rather animated to double his Industry , and will try again and again in a Hundred Different Places , in Hopes at last of meeting with some lucky Hit ...
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