The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 57Century Company, 1898 - American literature |
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Page 41
... live at ease in my old age . " " My self and children have always been a tax upon you , " she wrote to him , “ but your great and uncommon good- ness has carried you cheerfully under it . " Nor was Franklin's charity an enforced one ...
... live at ease in my old age . " " My self and children have always been a tax upon you , " she wrote to him , “ but your great and uncommon good- ness has carried you cheerfully under it . " Nor was Franklin's charity an enforced one ...
Page 60
... live forever ? " I asked . " Yes , " he answered ; " that has happened to me ; but such feelings have long , long passed away . If you could have lived as I have , and had seen the world change from what it was when I was born to what ...
... live forever ? " I asked . " Yes , " he answered ; " that has happened to me ; but such feelings have long , long passed away . If you could have lived as I have , and had seen the world change from what it was when I was born to what ...
Page 287
... live , and not live to eat , " his double , as time wore on , failed to live up to his own good advice ; and such temperance as he exercised was due to mo- tives of economy rather than to control of appetite . " The poor man , " he said ...
... live , and not live to eat , " his double , as time wore on , failed to live up to his own good advice ; and such temperance as he exercised was due to mo- tives of economy rather than to control of appetite . " The poor man , " he said ...
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