 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...where no I dwell, My name I do put here; Without offence, your real iricnd, — It is Peter Jb'ulg'icr. My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...* where now I dwell, My name I do put here : Without offence your real friend It is Peter Folgier." 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 tythe of his sons,... | |
 | 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
...where now I dwell, My name I do put here ; Without offence, your leal friend, — It ia Peter Folgi'er. My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1840 - 666 pages
...where now I dwell, My name I do put here ; Without offence your real friend, It is Peter Folger."f My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different...of age ; my father intending to devote me, as the tythe of his sons, to the service of the church. * In the island of Nantucket. t The poem, if such... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...where now I dwell, My name I do put here ; Without offence your real friend, It is Peter Folger." f My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different...of age ; my father intending to devote me, as the tythe of his sons, to the service of the church. • In the island of Nantucket. f The poem, if such... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1848 - 676 pages
...where now I dwell, My name I do put here ; Without offence your real friend, It is Peter Folger." f My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different...of age ; my father intending to devote me, as the tythe of his sons, to the service of the church. * In the island of NantuckeU f The poem, if such it... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Almanacs - 1849 - 78 pages
...Town* where now I dwell, My name I do put here; Without offence your real friend, It is Peter Folger." 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 devoting me, as the tithe of his sons,... | |
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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. 
