 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 610 pages
...of that caution. You ask what I mean ? You love stories, and will excuse my telling one of myself. When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop where they sold toys for children;... | |
 | English wit & humor - 1825 - 204 pages
...servants ; in France companions ; in Italy schootboys ; and in Spain tyrants. Doctor Franklin's Whittle. When I was a child , of seven years old, my friends on a holiday rilled my pockets with coppers. I went to a shop where they sold toys for children ; and,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1836 - 584 pages
...neglect of that caution. You ask what I mean? You love stories, and will excuse my telling one of myself. When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop where they sold toys for children... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1844 - 600 pages
...of that caution. You ask what I mean ? You love stories, and will excuse my telling one of myself. When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop where they sold toys for children... | |
 | Political satire - 1848 - 408 pages
...it For instance, the celebrated Dr. FRANKLIN commences a piece of writing in this absurd manner : " When I was a child of seven years old. my friends on a holiday filled my pockets with coppers." He should have expressed it something in this way : " Upon... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...of that caution. You ask what I mean ? You love stories, and will excuse my telling one of myself. When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop where they sold toys for children;... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855 - 718 pages
...of thnt caution. You ask what I mean Î You love stories, and will excuse my telling one of myself. When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop where they sold toys for children... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 704 pages
...of that caution. You ask what I mean I You love stories, and will excuse my telling one of myself. When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I went directly to A shop where they sold toys for children... | |
 | Proverbs - 1861 - 258 pages
...proverbial, is found in the following extract from a paper by its author, Benjamin Franklin : — " When I was a child of seven years old my friends on a holiday filled my pockets with coppers. I went directly to a shop where they sold toys for children,... | |
 | James Parton - Biography - 1868 - 694 pages
...close and saving. To correct this error, I will now briefly relate his pecuniary history, from his boyhood to his death, showing how he got his money,..."When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pockets with coppers. I went directly to a shop where they sold toys for children... | |
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When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop where they sold toys for children ; and, being charmed with the sound of a whistle, that I met by the way in the hands of another... 
