 | Benjamin Franklin - Philosophers - 1818 - 566 pages
...was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age ; my father intending to devote me, as the tythe of his sons, to the service of the church. My early...of all his friends, that I should certainly make a ' In the island of Nantucket. good scholar, encouraged him in this purpose of his. My uncle Benjamin... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...was put to the grammar school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tythe of his sons, to the service of the church. My early...learning to read (which must have been very early, and I do not remember when I could not read) and the opinion of all my friends, that I should certainly... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...service of the church. My early readiness in learning to read (which must have been very early, and I do not remember when I could not read) and the opinion of all my friends, that I should certainly make a good scholar, encouraged him in this purpose of his. My... | |
 | Great Britain - 1818 - 590 pages
...his father Josiah, not only sent Benjamin to school at eight years old, but intended to devote him " as the tithe of his sons to the service of the church." However, the narrowness of his father's circumstances having prevented this; at the age of ten he was... | |
 | Great Britain - 1818 - 708 pages
...his father Josiah, not only sent Benjamin to school at eight years old, but intended to devote him " as the tithe of his sons to the service of the church." However, the narrowness of his father's circumstances having prevented this ; at the age of ten he... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...was put to the grammar school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me as the tythe of his sons, to the service of the church. My early...learning to read, (which must have been very early, and I do not remember when I could not read,) and the opinion of all my friends, that I should certainly... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - Inventors - 1848 - 522 pages
...knowledge and other indications of bright parts, prompted a disposition in his father "to devote Benjamin, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the church." With this view, Benjamin, at the age of eight years, was sent to a grammar-school, where his progress... | |
 | John Stanley (printer.) - Statesmen - 1849 - 178 pages
...trades. I wasi put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending me, as the tythe of his sons, to the service of the church. My early...make a good scholar, encouraged him in this purpose oi his." Franklin, however, continued at the grammar school rather less than a year; although in that... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Almanacs - 1849 - 78 pages
...different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devoting me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the...remember when I could not read,) and the opinion of all my friends, that I should certainly make a good scholar, encouraged him in this purpose of his. My... | |
 | Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1850 - 716 pages
...church. His early readiness in learning to read, ("which," says he, "must have been very early, for I do not remember when I could not read,") and the opinion of all his friends that he would certainly make a good scholar, encouraged Franklin's father in the purpose of giving him a... | |
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My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the church. My early readiness in learning to read (which... 
