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" ... to add, he may rise again and deliver it. To interrupt another, even in common conversation, is reckoned highly indecent. How different this is from the conduct of a polite British House of Commons, where scarce a day passes without some confusion,... "
Recreations in Agriculture, Natural-history, Arts, and Miscellaneous Literature - Page 236
by James Anderson - 1800
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Works of the Late Doctor Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of His Life, Written ...

Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1793 - 324 pages
...that makes the fpeaker hoarfe in calling to order ; and how different from the mode of converfation in many polite companies of Europe, where, if you do not deliver your fentence with great rapidity, you are cut off in the middle of it by the impatient loquacity of thofe...
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Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1804 - 78 pages
...conduct of a polite British House of Commons, where scarcely a day passes without some confusion which makes the speaker hoarse in calling to order; and...the middle of it by the impatient loquacity of those with whom you converse, and are never suffered lo finish it ! The politeness of these savages in con...
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The Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, of the ..., Volume 3

Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1806 - 590 pages
...different this is from the conduct of a polite British house of commons, where scarce a day passes without some confusion, that makes the speaker hoarse...converse with, and never suffered to finish it ! The politeness of these savages in conversation is indeed carried to excess, since it does not permit them...
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The complete works ... of ... Benjamin Franklin, Volume 3

Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 586 pages
...different this is from the conduct of a polite British house of commons, where scarce a day passes without some confusion, that makes the speaker hoarse...converse with, and never suffered to finish it! The politeness of these savages in conversation is indeed carried to excess, since it does not permit them...
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The Works of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of His Life Written ...

Benjamin Franklin - 1807 - 310 pages
...different this is from the conduct of a polite British House of Commons, where scarce a day passes without some confusion, that makes the speaker hoarse...converse with, and never suffered to finish it ! The politeness of these savages in conversation, is, indeed, carried to excess ; since it does not permit...
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The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [Correspondence

Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1809 - 466 pages
...different this is from the conduct of a polite British house of commons, where scarce a day passes without some confusion, that makes the speaker hoarse...converse with, and never suffered to finish it ! The politeness of these savages in conversation is indeed carried to excess, since it does not permit them...
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Works of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Memoirs of His Early Life

Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1810 - 292 pages
...different thss is from the conduct of a polite British House of Commons, where scarce a day passes without some confusion, that makes the speaker hoarse in calling to order; and how different f--om the modes of conversation in many polite companies of Europe, -where, if you do not -deliver...
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The Essays, Humourous, Moral and Literary: Of the Late Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1811 - 196 pages
...different this is from the conduct of a polite British House of Commons, •where scarce a, day passes without some confusion, that makes the speaker hoarse...deliver your sentence with great rapidity, you are cut oft" in the middle of it by the impatient loquacity of those you converse with, and never suffered...
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The Essays, Humourous, Moral and Literary: Of the Late Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1811 - 190 pages
...different this is from the conduct 'of a polite British House of Commons, where scarce a day passes without some confusion, that makes the speaker hoarse...deliver your sentence with great rapidity, you are cut oft" in the middle of it by the impatient loquacity of those you converse With, and never suffered...
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The literary miscellany: or, Selections and extracts, classical ..., Volume 9

1812 - 314 pages
...conduct of a polite British House of Commons, where scarcely a day passes without some confusion which makes the speaker hoarse in calling to order; and...many polite companies of Europe, where, if you do notdeliveryour sentence with great rapidity, you are cut off in the middle of it by the impatient loquacity...
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