 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 σελίδες
...time, but at last was persuaded, and 'signed the indentures when I was yet but twelve years old. I was to serve as an apprentice till I was twenty-one years...wages during the last year. in a little time I made a great progress in the business, and became a useful hand to my brother. I now had access to better... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 σελίδες
...persuaded and signed the indenture, when I was yet but twelve years old. I was to serve an apprenticeship 'till I was twenty-one years of age, only I was to...wages during the last year. In a little time I made a great progress in the business, and became a useful hand to my brother. I now had access to better... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 σελίδες
...but twelve years old. I was to serve an apprenticeship 'till I was twenty-one years of age, VOL. I. B only I was to be allowed journeyman's wages during the last year. In a little time I made a great progress in the business, and became a useful hand to my brother. I now had access to better... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 σελίδες
...time, but at last was persuaded, and signed the indentures when I was yet but twelve years old. I was r business have its time. 4. RESOLUTION. a great progress in the business, and became a useful hand to my brother. I now had access to better... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 σελίδες
...persuaded, and signed the indenture, when I was yet but twelve years old. I was to serve an apprenticeship till I was twenty-one years of age, only I was to...wages during the last year. In a little time I made a great progress in the business, and became a useful hand to my brother. I now had access to better... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1844 - 688 σελίδες
...indenture, when I was yet but twelve years old. I was to serve an apprenticeship till I was twenty -one years of age, only I was to be allowed journeyman's...wages during the last year. In a little time I made a great progress in the business, and became a useful hand to my brother. I now had access to better... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1848 - 676 σελίδες
...persuaded, and signed the indenture, when I was yet but twelve years old. I was to serve an apprenticeship till I was twenty-one years of age, only I was to...wages during the last year. In a little time I made a great progress in the business, and became a useful hand to my brother. I now had access to better... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1849 - 78 σελίδες
...time, but at last was persuaded, and signed the indentures when I was yet but .twelve years old. I was to serve as an apprentice till I was twenty-one years...wages during the last year. In a little time I made a great progress in the business, and became a useful hand to my brother. I had now access to better... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1859 - 872 σελίδες
...and when he had thus by constraint become a printer, his great consolation was, as he says, that " I now had access to better books. An acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers enabled me sometimes to borrow a small one, which I was careful to return soon and clean. Often I sat... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 σελίδες
...persuaded and signed the indenture, when I was yet but twelve years old. I was to serve an apprenticeship till I was twenty-one years of age, only I was to be allowed journeymen's wages during the last year. In a little time I made a great progress in the business,... | |
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In a little time I made great proficiency in the business, and became a useful hand to my brother. I now had access to better books. An acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers enabled me sometimes to borrow a small one, which I was careful to... 
