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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... lived at Ecton till he was too old to con- tinue his business , when he retired to Banbury in Ox- fordshire to the house of his son John , a dyer , with whom my father served an apprenticeship . There my grandfather died and lies buried ...
... lived at Ecton till he was too old to con- tinue his business , when he retired to Banbury in Ox- fordshire to the house of his son John , a dyer , with whom my father served an apprenticeship . There my grandfather died and lies buried ...
Strana 61
... lived a maiden lady of seventy in the most retired manner , of whom my land- lady gave me this account : that she was a Roman Cath- olic , had been sent abroad when young and lodged in a nunnery with an intent of becoming a nun ; but ...
... lived a maiden lady of seventy in the most retired manner , of whom my land- lady gave me this account : that she was a Roman Cath- olic , had been sent abroad when young and lodged in a nunnery with an intent of becoming a nun ; but ...
Strana 79
... lived some years in very poor circumstances . His apprentice , David Harry , whom I had instructed while I worked with him , set up in his place at Phila- delphia , having bought his materials . I was at first appre- hensive of a ...
... lived some years in very poor circumstances . His apprentice , David Harry , whom I had instructed while I worked with him , set up in his place at Phila- delphia , having bought his materials . I was at first appre- hensive of a ...
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Introduction | 7 |
PART ONEThe Autobiography | 15 |
PART TWO Selected Writings | 182 |
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