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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... conduct through life.” But Franklin emphasized good works at the expense of faith to a degree Mather would have thought excessive. And Franklin's humanitarian devotion to making life in society safer, less fractious, and more ...
... conduct through life.” But Franklin emphasized good works at the expense of faith to a degree Mather would have thought excessive. And Franklin's humanitarian devotion to making life in society safer, less fractious, and more ...
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... conduct — self-reliant, self-taught, indeed self-created. Ultimately one wonders how much the fabulous personal freedom and independence of movement depicted in the book — beginning with the hero's youthful desire to go to sea, and ...
... conduct — self-reliant, self-taught, indeed self-created. Ultimately one wonders how much the fabulous personal freedom and independence of movement depicted in the book — beginning with the hero's youthful desire to go to sea, and ...
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... conducted. There was a Salt Marsh that bounded part of the Mill Pond, on the Edge of which at High water, we us'd to stand to fish for Minews.8 By much Trampling, we had made it a mere Quagmire. My Proposal was to build a Wharf there ...
... conducted. There was a Salt Marsh that bounded part of the Mill Pond, on the Edge of which at High water, we us'd to stand to fish for Minews.8 By much Trampling, we had made it a mere Quagmire. My Proposal was to build a Wharf there ...
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... Conduct of Life; and little or no Notice was ever taken of what related to the Victuals on the Table, whether it was well or ill dressed, in or out of season, of good or bad flavor, preferable or inferior to this or that other thing of ...
... Conduct of Life; and little or no Notice was ever taken of what related to the Victuals on the Table, whether it was well or ill dressed, in or out of season, of good or bad flavor, preferable or inferior to this or that other thing of ...
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