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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... company, militia, college, and hospital. His experiments' with electricity transformed existing, miscellaneous knowledge about the subject into a coherent discipline, but his scientific speculations also Couched on yellow fever, cancer ...
... company, militia, college, and hospital. His experiments' with electricity transformed existing, miscellaneous knowledge about the subject into a coherent discipline, but his scientific speculations also Couched on yellow fever, cancer ...
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... company not agreeable. Seeing near the riverside what seemed a green meadow with a large shade tree where he might sit and pass the time pleasantly until the tide turned, he prevailed upon the captain to put him ashore. But his desire ...
... company not agreeable. Seeing near the riverside what seemed a green meadow with a large shade tree where he might sit and pass the time pleasantly until the tide turned, he prevailed upon the captain to put him ashore. But his desire ...
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... company of such American naïfs as Hawthorne, Dickinson, Twain, and Frost, persons of much greater depth of being than their commonly known behavior and works at first suggest. Readers of the Autobiography ought to keep in mind another ...
... company of such American naïfs as Hawthorne, Dickinson, Twain, and Frost, persons of much greater depth of being than their commonly known behavior and works at first suggest. Readers of the Autobiography ought to keep in mind another ...
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... Company as for a public Ball. 'Tis perhaps only Negligence. To return. I continu'd thus employ'd in my Father's Business for two Years, that is till I was 12 Years old; and my Brother John, who was bred to that Business, having left my ...
... Company as for a public Ball. 'Tis perhaps only Negligence. To return. I continu'd thus employ'd in my Father's Business for two Years, that is till I was 12 Years old; and my Brother John, who was bred to that Business, having left my ...
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... Company, by the Contradiction that is necessary to bring it into Practice, & thence, besides souring & spoiling the Conversation, is productive of Disgusts & perhaps Enmities where you may have occasion for Friendship. I had caught it ...
... Company, by the Contradiction that is necessary to bring it into Practice, & thence, besides souring & spoiling the Conversation, is productive of Disgusts & perhaps Enmities where you may have occasion for Friendship. I had caught it ...
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