 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
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 438 trang
...rate, Franklin's formal schooling was meager, and of a kind calculated to aid him in getting a living. "At ten years old I was taken home to assist my father...which was that of a tallow-chandler and soap-boiler." Franklin assisted his father in the soap-boiling business for two years, but disliked it so much that... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2003 - 588 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... | |
 | Brandon Marie Miller - 2002 - 80 trang
...churches found reasons to hold dances — such as welcoming a new minister. CHAPTER Six ROWING PAINS ^At ten years old I was taken home to assist my father in his business" — Benjamin Franklin, who quit school to work for his father at age ten, 1716 By age twelve, most... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2004 - 446 trang
...him I acquired fair Writing pretty soon, hut I fail'd in the Arithmetie, and made no Progress in it. At Ten Years old, I was taken home to assist my Father in his Business, which was that of a Tallow Chandler and Sope-Boiler. A Business he was not hred to, hut had assumed on his Arrival in New... | |
 | Paul M. Zall - 2005 - 330 trang
...through rote memory and penmanship by copying from models repeatedly, with no thought to composition.8 At Ten Years old, I was taken home to assist my Father in his Business, which was that of a Tallow Chandler and SopeBoiler. A Business he was not bred to, but had assumed on his Arrival in New... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2005 - 320 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 tallowchandler 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... | |
 | James Marten, James Alan Marten - 2007 - 268 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...his business, which was that of a tallowchandler and [soap] -boiler; a business he was not bred to, but had assumed on his arrival in New England, and on... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2007 - 258 trang
...him I acquired fair writing pretty soon, but I fail'd 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 finding... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2007 - 152 trang
...business he was not bred to, but had assumed 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 cutting By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be grown old. I us'd to write more methodically. But... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 189? - 332 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... | |
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