The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's Almanac and Other Papers |
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Accordingly she had given all her estate to charitable purposes , reserving only twelve pounds a year to live on ; and out of this sum she still gave a part in charity , living herself on water - gruel only and using no fire but to boil ...
Accordingly she had given all her estate to charitable purposes , reserving only twelve pounds a year to live on ; and out of this sum she still gave a part in charity , living herself on water - gruel only and using no fire but to boil ...
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He went to Barbadoes and there lived some years in very poor circumstances . His apprentice , David Harry , whom I had instructed while I worked with him , set up in his place at Philadelphia , having bought his materials .
He went to Barbadoes and there lived some years in very poor circumstances . His apprentice , David Harry , whom I had instructed while I worked with him , set up in his place at Philadelphia , having bought his materials .
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ingly as regardless of the shortness of life as if they had been sure of living a month . ... “ It was , ” said he , “ the opinion of learned philosophers of our race who lived and flourished long before my time that this vast world ...
ingly as regardless of the shortness of life as if they had been sure of living a month . ... “ It was , ” said he , “ the opinion of learned philosophers of our race who lived and flourished long before my time that this vast world ...
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