 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 trang
...out in the purchasing of books. I was very fond of voyages. My first acquisition was Bunyan's works in separate little volumes. I afterwards sold them to enable me to buy R. Burtons Historical Collections, they were small chapmen's books, and cheap. Forty volumes in all. My... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 trang
...out in the purchasing of books. I was very fond of voyages. My first acquisition was Buny ait's works in separate little volumes. I afterwards sold them to enable me to buy li. Burton" s Historical Collections ; they were small chapmen's books, and cheap, 40 volumes in all.... | |
 | 1834 - 500 trang
...fond of reading, and all the money that came into my hands was laid out in the purchasing of books." " My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read." " There was another bookish Ltd in the town, John Collins by name, with whom I was intimately acquainted.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 trang
...out in the purchasing of books. I was very fond of voyages. My first acquisition was Bunyan's works in separate little volumes. I afterwards sold them to enable me to buy R. Burton'» Historical Collections ; they were small chapmen's books, and cheap, 40 volumes in all. My... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1849 - 78 trang
...very fond of voyages. My first acquisition was Bunyan's works in separate little volumes. I afterward sold them to enable me to buy R. Burton's Historical...Collections ; they were small chapmen's books, and cheap, 40 volumes in all. My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1859 - 872 trang
...laid out in purchasing books. I was very fond of voyages. My first acquisition was Bunyan's works, in separate little volumes. I afterwards sold them to enable me to buy R. Burton's Historical Colleclions. They were small chapman's books and cheap, forty volumes in all. My father's little library... | |
 | Success - 1851 - 362 trang
...Bunyan's works, in separate little volumes. I afterward sold them, to enable me to buy B. Barton's Historical Collections. They were small chapmen's books, and cheap; forty volumes in all. There was among my father's books, Plutarch's Lives, which I read abundantly, and I still think that... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 trang
...out in the purchasing of books. I was very fond of voyages. My first acquisition was Bunyan's works in separate little volumes. I afterwards." sold them to enable me to buy E. Burton's Historical Collections. They were small chapmen's books, and cheap ; forty volumes in all.... | |
 | Boston Public Library - 1858 - 252 trang
...laid out in purchasing books. I was very fond of voyages." My first acquisition was Bunyau's works, in separate little volumes. I afterwards sold them...R Burton's Historical Collections. They were small chapman's books and cheap, forty volumes in all. My father's little library consisted chiefly of books... | |
 | 1858 - 348 trang
...Bunyan's works, in separate little volumes. I afterward sold them, to enable me to buy R. Barton's Historical Collections. They were small chapmen's books, and cheap ; forty volumes in all. There was among my father's books, Plutarch's Lives, which I read abundantly, and I still think that... | |
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Historical Collections ; they were small chapmen's books, and cheap, 40 or 50 in all. My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that at a time when I had such a thirst... 
