Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 259
By H. a. Ogden. When Dr. Benjamin Franklin stood beforethe monarch of France in 1778, it must haveseemed to him the exact fulfilment of a pro-phecy; for it is said that, when a poor httle boy,his father used to repeat to him Solomonsproverb: Seest thou a man diligent in hisbusiness ? he shall stand…
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