 Often I sat up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.  Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Sida 91efter Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 409 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | James Baldwin - 1886 - 216 sidor
...persuaded, and signed the indenture when I was yet but twelve years old. ... I now had access to better books. An acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers...one, which I was careful to return soon, and clean. Of^en I sat up hi my chamber the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 330 sidor
...great proficiency in the business, and became a useful hand to my brother. I now had access to better books. An acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers...borrow a small one, which I was careful to return education of women, and the like. Not a few of Franklin's most useful projects seem to have been suggested... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1890 - 320 sidor
...to serve as an apprentice until he should be twenty-one. " I now had access," he says, " to better books. An acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers...the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted." 17. Years afterward, Franklin saw how useful it would be if several persons should put their separate... | |
 | 1919 - 986 sidor
...apprentice he devoted all his spare time, especially on Sundays, to reading, and "often sat up in his room reading the greatest part of the night, when...early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanting." The books that most impressed his youthful mind were Pilgrim's Progress, Burton's Historical... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1891 - 142 sidor
...great progress in the business, and became a useful hand to my brother. I now had access to better books. An acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers...careful to return soon and clean. Often I sat up in my chamber reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 sidor
...great proficiency in the business, and became a useful hand to my brother. I now had access to better books. An acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers...in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted. 1 chapmen, peddlers ; that is, cheap editions of books for popular sale by hawkers and peddlers a suitable... | |
 | Jenny H. Stickney - 1892 - 416 sidor
...proficiency in the business, and became a useful hand to my brother. I now had access to better books. 5. An acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers enabled me sometimes to borrow a small book, which I was careful to return soon and clean. Often I sat up in my room reading the greatest... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1895 - 310 sidor
...great progress in the business, and became a useful hand to , '-my brother. I now had access to better books. An acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers...careful to return soon, and clean. Often I sat up in my chamber reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 462 sidor
...great proficiency in the business, and became a useful hand to my brother. I now had access to better books. An acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers...in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted. FRANKLIN'S JOURNEY TO PHILADELPHIA: HIS ARRIVAL THERE From the 'Autobiography,' in Bigelow's Edition... | |
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