 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...(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,...volumes of sermons to set up with, if I would learn shorthand. I continued however at the grammar scljool rather less than a year, though in that time... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Philosophers - 1818 - 566 pages
...of age ; my father intending to devote me, as the tythe of his sons, to the service of the church. My early readiness in learning to read (which must...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 - 558 pages
...of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tj the of his sons, to the 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...years of age, my father intending to devote me as the tythe of his sons, to the 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... | |
 | John Stanley (printer.) - Statesmen - 1849 - 178 pages
...eight years of age, my father intending me, as the tythe of his sons, to the service of the church. My early readiness in learning to read, which must...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
...of age, my father intending to devoting me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church. My early readiness in learning to read (which must...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...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...approved of it, and proposed to give me his short-hand volume of sermons to set up with, if I would learn his short-hand. I continued, however, at the grammar... | |
 | Theodore Alois Buckley - Biography - 1853 - 446 pages
...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 must...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 uncle... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...of age ; my father intending to devote me, as the tythe of his sons, to the service of the church. My early readiness in learning to read, which must have been very early, HS I do not remember when I could not read, a.nd the opinion of all his friends, that I should certainly... | |
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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... 
