 Brownell, very successful in his profession generally, and that by mild, encouraging methods. Under him I acquired fair writing pretty soon, but I failed in the arithmetic, and made no progress in it. At ten years old...  Pamphlets on Biography - Trang 81901Xem Toàn bộ - Giới thiệu về cuốn sách này
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 602 trang
...him I acquired fair writing pretty soon, but I failed in the arithmetic, and made no progress in it. At ten years old I was taken home to assist my father...business, which was that of a tallow-chandler and sope-boiler ; a business he was not bred to, but had assumed on his arrival in New England, and on... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 812 trang
...him I acquired fair writing pretty soon, but I failed in the arithmetic, and made no progress in it. At ten years old I was taken home to assist my father...business, which was that of a tallow-chandler and sope-boiler ; a business he was not bred to, but had assumed on his arrival in New England, and on... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1876 - 216 trang
...Ball was made and adopted as a sign. away thus early from his books and his play, to help along his father in his business, — which was that of a tallow-chandler and soap-boiler. And that father's name may still be deciphered beneath the torn and tarnished gilding on the ball to... | |
 | 1877 - 972 trang
...him I acquired fair writing pretty soon, but I failed in the arithmetic, and made no progress in it At ten years old I was taken home to assist my father...on his arrival in New England, and on finding his dying trade would not maintain his family, being in little request. Accordingly, I was employed in... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1877 - 982 trang
...him I acquired fair writing pretty soon, but I failed in the arithmetic, and made no progress in it. At ten years old I was taken home to assist my father...on his arrival in New England, and on finding his dying trade would not maintain his family, being in little request. Accordingly, I was employed in... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1879 - 424 trang
...a good hand pretty soon; but I failed entirely in arithmetic. At ten years old I was taken to help my father in his business, which was that of a tallow-chandler and soap-boiler ; a business to which he was not bred, but had assumed on his arrival in New England, because he found that his... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 trang
...him I acquired fair writing pretty soon, but I failed in the arithmetic, and made no progress in it. At ten years old I was taken home to assist my father...was that of a tallow-chandler and soap-boiler — a 25 business he was not bred to, but had assumed on his arrival in New England, and on finding his dyeing... | |
 | William Swinton - 1882 - 686 trang
...him I acquired fair writing pretty soon, but I failed in the arithmetic, and made no progress in it. At ten years old I was taken home to assist my father...employed in cutting wick for the candles, filling the dipping-mould and the moulds for cast candles, attending the shop, going of*. errands, etc. 2. I disliked... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1886 - 256 trang
...him I acquired fair writing pretty soon, but I failed in the arithmetic, and made no progress in it. At ten years old I was taken home to assist my father...and soap-boiler; a business he was not bred to, but bad assumed on his arrival in New England, and on finding his dyeing trade would not maintain his family,... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 trang
...him I acquired fair writing pretty soon, but I failed in the arithmetic, and made no progress in it. At ten years old I was taken home to assist my father...which was that of a tallow-chandler and soap-boiler — a13 business he was not bred to, but had assumed on his arrival in New England, and on finding... | |
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