| Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...upon me to assert ray freedom; presuming that he would not venture to produce tlie new indentures. It was not fair in me to take this advantage, and this I therefore reckon as one of the first errata of my life; but the unfairness of it weighed little .with me, when under... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...took upon me to assert my ireedom; presuming that he would not venture to produce tlie new indentures. It was not fair in me to take this advantage, and this 1 therefore reckon as one of the first errata of my life; but the unfairness of it weighed little with... | |
| United States - 1826 - 422 pages
...servitude. " It was not fair in me to take this advantage," he says ; " and this I therefore notice as one of the first errata of my life : but the unfairness of it weighed little with me when under the impression of resentment for the blows his passion too often urged him to bestow upon me. Though he... | |
| United States - 1826 - 440 pages
...servitude. " It was not fair in me to take this advantage," he says ; " and this I therefore notice as one of the first errata of my life : but the unfairness of it weighed little with me when under the impression of resentment for the blows his passion too often urged him to bestow upon me. Though he... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...took upon me to assert my freedom, presuming that he would not venture to produce the new indentures. It was not fair in me to take this advantage, and this I therefore reckon as one of the first errata of my life ; but the unfairness of it weighed little with me, when under... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...took upon me to assert my freedom ; presuming that he would not venture to produce the new indentures. It was not fair in me to take this advantage, and...to bestow upon me. Though he was otherwise not an ill natured man ; perhaps I was too saucy and provoking. When he found I would leave him, he took care... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1840 - 668 pages
...took upon me to assert my freedom ; presuming that he would not venture to produce the new indentures. It was not fair in me to take this advantage, and...errata of my life ; but the unfairness of it weighed litde with me when under the impressions of resentment for the blows his passion too often urged him... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1848 - 676 pages
...took upon me to assert my freedom ; presuming that he would not venture to produce the new indentures. It was not fair in me to take this advantage, and...to bestow upon me. Though he was otherwise not an ill natured man ; perhaps I was too saucy and provoking. When he found I would leave him, he took care... | |
| Orville Luther Holley - Inventors - 1848 - 522 pages
...indenture. In his own account of this affair, he makes the following frank and ingenuous statement : — " It was not fair in me to take this advantage, and...under the impressions of resentment for the blows his [James's] passion too often urged him to bestow upon me; though he was otherwise not an illnatured... | |
| Popular educator - 1852 - 842 pages
...took upon me to assert my freedom, presuming that he would not venture to produce the new indentures. It was not fair in me to take this advantage ; and this, I therefore reckon, to be one of the first errata of my life ; but the unfairness weighed little with me, when under the... | |
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