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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... immediately distributed and composed it over again before I went to bed . And this industry visible to our neighbours began to give us char- acter and credit - particularly , I was told , that mention being made of the new printing ...
... immediately distributed and composed it over again before I went to bed . And this industry visible to our neighbours began to give us char- acter and credit - particularly , I was told , that mention being made of the new printing ...
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... immediately . This cannot be invariably the case , since a quantity of lightning , sufficient to kill , may not be sufficient to tear and divide the fibres and particles of flesh , and reduce them to that tender state , which is the ...
... immediately . This cannot be invariably the case , since a quantity of lightning , sufficient to kill , may not be sufficient to tear and divide the fibres and particles of flesh , and reduce them to that tender state , which is the ...
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... immediately cut off to make it bleed , when it may be plucked and dressed immediately . This quantity of electricity is supposed suf- ficient for a turkey of ten pounds weight , and perhaps for a lamb . Experience alone will inform us ...
... immediately cut off to make it bleed , when it may be plucked and dressed immediately . This quantity of electricity is supposed suf- ficient for a turkey of ten pounds weight , and perhaps for a lamb . Experience alone will inform us ...
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Introduction | 7 |
PART ONEThe Autobiography | 15 |
PART TWO Selected Writings | 182 |
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