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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... virtues from his family of English Dissenters. For example, he relates that his father, Josiah, discoursed so entertainingly at dinner that he paid little attention to his food, giving rise to a lifelong habit of temperance. During his ...
... virtues from his family of English Dissenters. For example, he relates that his father, Josiah, discoursed so entertainingly at dinner that he paid little attention to his food, giving rise to a lifelong habit of temperance. During his ...
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... Virtue,” teaching the subject to youths as one might teach architecture or the piano. Had he written such a book it might today stand first in a long and continuing parade of American popular works on self-help and self-improvement. He ...
... Virtue,” teaching the subject to youths as one might teach architecture or the piano. Had he written such a book it might today stand first in a long and continuing parade of American popular works on self-help and self-improvement. He ...
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... virtue. With his strong sense of identity he seems singularly immune to the workings of the conflict-torn inner self that Yeats called the “foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart,” his existence untroubled by stretches of ennui and waste ...
... virtue. With his strong sense of identity he seems singularly immune to the workings of the conflict-torn inner self that Yeats called the “foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart,” his existence untroubled by stretches of ennui and waste ...
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... Virtue,” where with religious intensity Franklin remains concentrated on his own conduct — self-reliant, self-taught, indeed self-created. Ultimately one wonders how much the fabulous personal freedom and independence of movement ...
... Virtue,” where with religious intensity Franklin remains concentrated on his own conduct — self-reliant, self-taught, indeed self-created. Ultimately one wonders how much the fabulous personal freedom and independence of movement ...
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... Virtue; but I had a good deal with regard to the Appearance of it.” An indication of his success in cultivating the semblance of humility is that when he served as minister to France, one of the many Parisians who clustered around him ...
... Virtue; but I had a good deal with regard to the Appearance of it.” An indication of his success in cultivating the semblance of humility is that when he served as minister to France, one of the many Parisians who clustered around him ...
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