Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Benjamin” in chapter 3, page 53 of Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters:
...gentry may often have stopped at Ecton to have their horses shod at the Franklin smithy.
Benjamin's father came out in 1685, more than fifty years after the most notable Puritan emigration.
Young Benjamin , born in 1706, was as untouched by the ardors of that elder generation as he would have been by the visions of Dante — an author, by the way, whom he never mentions, even as he never
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