 | Benjamin Franklin - Philosophers - 1818 - 566 pages
...defeat he left us in search elsewhere of better fortune, and I quitted the congregation, never attending it after ; though I continued many years my subscription...master of the French, as to be able to read the books in that language with ease : I then undertook the Italian. An acquaintance who was also learning it,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...defeat he left us in search elsewhere of better fortune, and I quitted the congregation, never attending it after; though I continued many years my subscription...a master of the French, as to be able to read the bucks in that language with case: I then undertook the Italian: an acquaintance who was also learning... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...defeat he left us in search elsewhere of better fortune, and I quitted the congregation, never attending it after; though I continued many years my subscription...made myself so much a master of the French, as to he able to read the books in that language with case: I then undertook the Italian : an acquaintance... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1830 - 484 pages
...fives us of the manner in which he pursued one ranch of his studies : — " I had begun," says he, " in 1733, to study languages. I soon made myself so...master of the French, as to be able to read the books in that language with ease. I then undertook the Italian. An acquaintance, who was also learning it,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophy - 1830 - 440 pages
...gives us of the manner in which he pursued one branch of his studies : — "I had begun," says he, " in 1733, to study languages. I soon made myself so...master of the French, as to be able to read the books in that language with ease. I then undertook the Italian. An acquaintance, who was also learning it,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1834 - 450 pages
...which he pursued one branch of his studies : — "I had begun," says he, "in 1733, to study anguages. I soon made myself so much a master of the French, as to be able to read the books in that language with ease. I then undertook the Italian. An acquaintance, who was also learning it,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...defeat he left us in search elsewhere of better fortune, and I quitted the congregation, never attending it after ; though I continued many years my subscription...ministers. I had begun in 1733 to study languages ; I soon mido myself so much a master of the French, as to bo abb to read the books in that language with еазэ:... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1834 - 500 pages
...defeat he left us in search elsewhere of better fortune, and I quitted the congregation, never attending it after; though I continued many years my subscription for the support of its ministers."— Life, p. 79. A most important fact is here disclosed. Benjamin Frankfin was actually excluded from... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1840 - 666 pages
...defeat, he left us in search elsewhere of better fortune, and I quitted the congregation, never attending it after; though I continued many years my subscription...master of the French, as to be able to read the books in that language with ease. I then undertook the Italian. An acquaintance, who was * None of these... | |
 | Exemplary and instructive biography - Biography - 1836 - 348 pages
...as yet scarcely knew any thing. The following is his own account of his private curriculum : — " I had begun in 1733 to study languages. I soon made...master of the French, as to be able to read the books in that language with ease. I then undertook the Italian. An acquaintance, who was also learning it,... | |
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I had begun in 1733 to study languages : I soon made myself so much a master of the French, as to be able to read the books in that language with ease : I then undertook the Italian. An acquaintance who was also learning it, used often to tempt me to... 
