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Often appears with: youth in business · religious persecution and toleration · religious controversy · public reputation management · parents and children · censorship and the press
Usually: narrative (1) · injustice endured (1) · detachment (1)
Keith’s proposal is rejected by Franklin’s father on grounds of Franklin’s youth and cost, but his father later allows Franklin to return to Philadelphia and advises him to avoid religious and satirical trouble.
in setting up, I being, in his opinion, too young to be trusted with the management of a business so important, and for which the preparation must be so expensive. My friend and companion Collins, who was a clerk in the post-office, pleas'd with the account I gave him of my new country, determined to go thither also; and, while I waited for my father's determination, he set out before me by land to Rhode Island, lea…