The Autobiography and Other WritingsPenguin, 07.01.1986 - 272 Seiten This authoritative Bantam Classic edition presents readers with a wide-ranging selection of Benjamin Franklin’s most important writings, illuminating the complex and appealing character of this quintessential American who rose to fame as a publisher, inventor, educator, bon vivant, and statesman. Here are selections from Franklin’s newspaper articles, from the sage wisdom of Poor Richard’s Almanac, from his entertaining letters, from his scientific essays, from his political and revolutionary writings, plus a generous sampling of his famous aphorisms, poems, and humor. And, most important, here is a newly edited text of one of the most vital and important works of American literature, the Autobiography. As fascinating and as relevant as ever, this timeless collection of writings reveals an extraordinary man whose mind was always curious, always questioning, and who forever remained dedicated to the principles of truth and liberty. |
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... business in his early forties. As a delegate to the Second Continental Congress, Franklin helped prepare the Declaration of Independence. His rise to wealth from humble beginnings and his momentous political and diplomatic roles were ...
... business in his early forties. As a delegate to the Second Continental Congress, Franklin helped prepare the Declaration of Independence. His rise to wealth from humble beginnings and his momentous political and diplomatic roles were ...
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... business career as a Philadelphia printer and tradesman enabled him to retire at the age of forty-two, but he also acted as alderman, councilman, burgess, and justice of the peace, and helped to CONTENTS Introduction.
... business career as a Philadelphia printer and tradesman enabled him to retire at the age of forty-two, but he also acted as alderman, councilman, burgess, and justice of the peace, and helped to CONTENTS Introduction.
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... Less familiar is the fact that Franklin also attributes his business success to his love of reading and writing. Arrived in Philadelphia, he befriended other young “Lovers of Reading” — the book's most recurrent category for.
... Less familiar is the fact that Franklin also attributes his business success to his love of reading and writing. Arrived in Philadelphia, he befriended other young “Lovers of Reading” — the book's most recurrent category for.
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... business contacts. Having trained himself, remarkably, to write effectively as a child, he later won the attention of rich and important men by his writing ability, which together with his careful printing brought new business. In sum ...
... business contacts. Having trained himself, remarkably, to write effectively as a child, he later won the attention of rich and important men by his writing ability, which together with his careful printing brought new business. In sum ...
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... , Franklin owed many of his opportunities to Do Good, as he owed much of his business success, to the emergence of Philadelphia as the cultural and commercial center of Colonial America. From a population of about 10,000.
... , Franklin owed many of his opportunities to Do Good, as he owed much of his business success, to the emergence of Philadelphia as the cultural and commercial center of Colonial America. From a population of about 10,000.
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