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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... sometimes buying printing paper and then conspicuously pushing it home in a wheelbarrow through the streets. He also established when young and then zealously guarded a reputation for honesty and good sense. It is of course a familiar ...
... sometimes buying printing paper and then conspicuously pushing it home in a wheelbarrow through the streets. He also established when young and then zealously guarded a reputation for honesty and good sense. It is of course a familiar ...
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... sometimes “drank more than a Philosopher ought,” as he put it, and in later life grew heavy and suffered from gout as a result of his love of rich food and wine; indeed his writings teem with food imagery. The straightforward narrator ...
... sometimes “drank more than a Philosopher ought,” as he put it, and in later life grew heavy and suffered from gout as a result of his love of rich food and wine; indeed his writings teem with food imagery. The straightforward narrator ...
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... sometimes intruded on her the words of an old song: “can he forgit me / will he niglegt me.” However much a friend to all mankind, with individual friends he was immensely cordial but seemingly incapable of prolonged intimacy. “Fish and ...
... sometimes intruded on her the words of an old song: “can he forgit me / will he niglegt me.” However much a friend to all mankind, with individual friends he was immensely cordial but seemingly incapable of prolonged intimacy. “Fish and ...
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... sometimes to say, that were it offer'd to my Choice, I should have no Objection to a Repetition of the same Life from its Beginning, only asking the Advantages Authors have in a second Edition to correct some Faults of the first. So ...
... sometimes to say, that were it offer'd to my Choice, I should have no Objection to a Repetition of the same Life from its Beginning, only asking the Advantages Authors have in a second Edition to correct some Faults of the first. So ...
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... sometimes buying of him, he brought them to me. It seems my Uncle must have left them here when he went to America, which was above 50 Years since. There are many of his Notes in the Margins. This obscure Family of ours was early in the ...
... sometimes buying of him, he brought them to me. It seems my Uncle must have left them here when he went to America, which was above 50 Years since. There are many of his Notes in the Margins. This obscure Family of ours was early in the ...
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