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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with Introduction and Notes Edited

By: Charles W. Eliot

...ople of the province. Several of them had been ap pointed by the Assembly a committee to attend the press, and take care that no more bills were prin... ... the government of neighbor ing states, and even on the conduct of our best national allies, which may be attended with the most pernicious con sequ... ... union should be established, which pass’d in the affirmative unanimously. A committee was then appointed, one member from each colony, to consider th... ...much prerogative in it, and in England it was judg’d to have too much of the democratic. The Board of Trade therefore did not approve of it, nor recom... ...t; for, as soon as I got back to my seat in the Assembly, I was put on every committee for answering his speeches and messages, and by the committees ... ...o. There was a great company of officers, citizens, and strangers, and, some chairs having been borrowed in the neighborhood, there was one among them...

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