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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... never to ask for an office and never to refuse one when offered to him . " I approve , " says I , " of his rule and will practise it with a small addition ; I shall never ask , never refuse , nor ever resign an office . If they will ...
... never to ask for an office and never to refuse one when offered to him . " I approve , " says I , " of his rule and will practise it with a small addition ; I shall never ask , never refuse , nor ever resign an office . If they will ...
Strana 194
... never be Night ; that a little to be spent out of so much , is not worth minding ; ( a Child and a Fool , as Poor Richard says , imagine Twenty Shillings and Twenty Years can never be spent ) but , al- ways taking out of , the Meal ...
... never be Night ; that a little to be spent out of so much , is not worth minding ; ( a Child and a Fool , as Poor Richard says , imagine Twenty Shillings and Twenty Years can never be spent ) but , al- ways taking out of , the Meal ...
Strana 258
... never heard any objection to the right of laying duties to regulate commerce ; but a right to lay internal taxes was never supposed to be in parliament , as we are not represented there .... Q. Can any thing less than a military force ...
... never heard any objection to the right of laying duties to regulate commerce ; but a right to lay internal taxes was never supposed to be in parliament , as we are not represented there .... Q. Can any thing less than a military force ...
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Introduction | 7 |
PART ONEThe Autobiography | 15 |
PART TWO Selected Writings | 182 |
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