The Encyclopædia Britannica: The New Volumes, Constituting, in Combination with the Twenty-nine Volumes of the Eleventh Edition, the Twelfth Edition of that Work, and Also Supplying a New, Distinctive, and Independent Library of Reference Dealing with Events and Developments of the Period 1910 to 1921 Inclusive, Հատոր 11Encyclopædia Britannica Company, Limited, 1910 |
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... England he had made many valuable friends outside of court and political circles , among whom Hume , Robertson and Adam Smith were conspicuous . In 1759 , for his literary and more particularly his scientific attainments , he received ...
... England he had made many valuable friends outside of court and political circles , among whom Hume , Robertson and Adam Smith were conspicuous . In 1759 , for his literary and more particularly his scientific attainments , he received ...
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... England was at an end , Franklin entrusted his agencies to the care of Arthur Lee , and on the 21st of March 1775 again set sail for Philadelphia . During the last years of his stay in England there had been repeated attempts to win him ...
... England was at an end , Franklin entrusted his agencies to the care of Arthur Lee , and on the 21st of March 1775 again set sail for Philadelphia . During the last years of his stay in England there had been repeated attempts to win him ...
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... England , was appointed on a commission to make peace with Great Britain . In the spring of 1782 Franklin had been inform- ally negotiating with Shelburne , secretary of state for the home department , through the medium of Richard ...
... England , was appointed on a commission to make peace with Great Britain . In the spring of 1782 Franklin had been inform- ally negotiating with Shelburne , secretary of state for the home department , through the medium of Richard ...
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... England , and she died in 1774 , while Franklin was in London . She bore him two children , one a son , Francis Folger , " whom I have seldom since seen equal'd in everything , and whom to this day [ thirty - six years after the child's ...
... England , and she died in 1774 , while Franklin was in London . She bore him two children , one a son , Francis Folger , " whom I have seldom since seen equal'd in everything , and whom to this day [ thirty - six years after the child's ...
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... England and France rank him as one of the heroes of the American War of Independence and as the greatest of American diplomats . Almost the only American scientist of his day , he displayed remarkably deep as well as remarkably varied ...
... England and France rank him as one of the heroes of the American War of Independence and as the greatest of American diplomats . Almost the only American scientist of his day , he displayed remarkably deep as well as remarkably varied ...
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