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Page 340
... honour , and hap - Dr . Franklin to Edmund Burke , Esq . piness , ever attend you , from yours , & c . LETTER IX . Dr. Franklin to the Rev. William Nixon . Rev. sir , Sir , M. P. Passy , Oct. 15 , 1781 . I RECEIVED but a few days since ...
... honour , and hap - Dr . Franklin to Edmund Burke , Esq . piness , ever attend you , from yours , & c . LETTER IX . Dr. Franklin to the Rev. William Nixon . Rev. sir , Sir , M. P. Passy , Oct. 15 , 1781 . I RECEIVED but a few days since ...
Page 343
... honour our father and mother , but long experience , the wisest of nations , has nowhere directed us to honour honour does not descend , but ascends . our children . And certainly no mode If a man , from his learning , his wis- of ...
... honour our father and mother , but long experience , the wisest of nations , has nowhere directed us to honour honour does not descend , but ascends . our children . And certainly no mode If a man , from his learning , his wis- of ...
Page 344
... honour through so many a father and mother - they are two ; generations ( even supposing honour each of them had a father and mo- capable in its nature of descending ) , ther they are four . Those of the will only prove the small share ...
... honour through so many a father and mother - they are two ; generations ( even supposing honour each of them had a father and mo- capable in its nature of descending ) , ther they are four . Those of the will only prove the small share ...
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