The Autobiography and Other WritingsSignet Classic, 1961 - Počet stran: 352 Benjamin Franklin's writings represent a long career of literary, scientific, and political efforts over a lifetime which extended nearly the entire eighteenth century. Franklin's achievements range from inventing the lightning rod to publishing Poor Richard's Almanack to signing the Declaration of Independence. In his own lifetime he knew prominence not only in America but in Britain and France as well. This volume includes Franklin's reflections on such diverse questions as philosophy and religion, social status, electricity, American national characteristics, war, and the status of women. Nearly sixty years separate the earliest writings from the latest, an interval during which Franklin was continually balancing between the puritan values of his upbringing and the modern American world to which his career served as prologue. This edition provides a new text of the Autobiography, established with close reference to Franklin's original manuscript. It also includes a new transcription of the 1726 journal, and several pieces which have recently been identified as Franklin's own work. |
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Strana 19
... believe of wool . Benjamin was bred a silk dyer , serving an apprenticeship at London . He was an ingenious man . I remember him well , for when I was a boy he came to my father's in Boston and lived in the house with us some years ...
... believe of wool . Benjamin was bred a silk dyer , serving an apprenticeship at London . He was an ingenious man . I remember him well , for when I was a boy he came to my father's in Boston and lived in the house with us some years ...
Strana 124
... believe that the defence of the country was not disagreeable to any of them , pro- vided they were not required to assist in it . And I found that a much greater number of them than I could have imagined , tho ' against offensive war ...
... believe that the defence of the country was not disagreeable to any of them , pro- vided they were not required to assist in it . And I found that a much greater number of them than I could have imagined , tho ' against offensive war ...
Strana 319
... believe your usual Charity will induce you rather to pity and excuse than blame me . In the mean time your Care and Concern for me is what I am very thankful for . As to the Freemasons , unless she will believe me when I assure her that ...
... believe your usual Charity will induce you rather to pity and excuse than blame me . In the mean time your Care and Concern for me is what I am very thankful for . As to the Freemasons , unless she will believe me when I assure her that ...
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Introduction | 7 |
PART ONEThe Autobiography | 15 |
PART TWO Selected Writings | 182 |
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