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From the facility he discovered in learning the rudiments of his native language, his parents be lieved him endowed with more than ordinary ge nius, and resolved to raise him to the profession of a clergyman. He was, therefore, placed in a gram mar school to receive the requisite instructions. He engaged, himself, with so much ardour in this pious enterprize, and pursued his studies with so much diligence, that before he had reached the eighth year of his age, he had attained a great reputation, in his class, for industry and capacity.
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Excerpt from Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Vol. 31
From the facility he discovered in learning the rudiments of his native language, his parents be lieved him endowed with more than ordinary ge nius, and resolved to raise him to the profession of a clergyman. He was, therefore, placed in a gram mar school to receive the requisite instructions. He engaged, himself, with so much ardour in this pious enterprize, and pursued his studies with so much diligence, that before he had reached the eighth year of his age, he had attained a great reputation, in his class, for industry and capacity.
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Benjamin Franklin was a native of Boston, and was born on the 17th of January, 1706. The paternal branch of his ancestors inhabited the county of Northampton in England. They were proprietors of a small freehold estate near the village of Eaton, where the family had been established, according to the traditions of that place, for more than three centuries. They pursued generally some trade, especially that of blacksmith, and were very honorably distinguished in their neighbourhood, for industry, honesty, and mechanical ingenuity. His father, who was of the persuasion of the Puritans, emigrated in 1682 to the colony of Massachusetts, the common refuge of those of his sect, who fled from the persecutions of their native country; but VOL.
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