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Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Vol. 2 of 9 (Classic Reprint)
Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence Vol 2 of 9 - Classic Reprint Author:John Sanderson FRANKLIN. 7 estimate too highly whatever may tend to cultivate and preserve it Nor was the generosity of his nature concealed amidst the drudgery of this servile employment. In the various enterprises of spirit and resolution in which, during this period, he engaged the companions of his recreations, he displayed a manifest superiority both of i... more »ngenuity and bodily accomplishments, and soon procured amongst them a reputation for courage and capacity. But that which exhibits more conspicuously the dignity of his ambition, was the noble ardour which he discovered for the acquisition of knowledge. All the books placed within his grasp, which in a new colony were of difficult access, he devoured with insatiate rapture: travels, voyages, historical compilations; even the odd volumes, which accident offered him, he read with frequent repetition; nor did the folios of controversial divinity, which the bigotry of his father had preserved, though unintelligible to his unripened understanding,
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