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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... piece was ready ; I told him I had been busy and , having little inclination , had done nothing . He then showed me his piece for my opinion ; and I much approved it , as it appeared to have great merit . " Now , " says he , " Os- borne ...
... piece was ready ; I told him I had been busy and , having little inclination , had done nothing . He then showed me his piece for my opinion ; and I much approved it , as it appeared to have great merit . " Now , " says he , " Os- borne ...
Strana 108
... piece , being universally ap- proved , was copied in all the newspapers of the Conti- nent , reprinted in Britain on a broadside to be stuck up in houses , two translations were made of it in French , and great numbers bought by the ...
... piece , being universally ap- proved , was copied in all the newspapers of the Conti- nent , reprinted in Britain on a broadside to be stuck up in houses , two translations were made of it in French , and great numbers bought by the ...
Strana 328
... piece , as con- ceiving it might have an ill tendency , I burnt the rest , except one copy , the margin of which was filled with manuscript notes by Lyons , author of the Infallibility of Human Judgment , who was at that time another of ...
... piece , as con- ceiving it might have an ill tendency , I burnt the rest , except one copy , the margin of which was filled with manuscript notes by Lyons , author of the Infallibility of Human Judgment , who was at that time another of ...
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Introduction | 7 |
PART ONEThe Autobiography | 15 |
PART TWO Selected Writings | 182 |
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