The Autobiography and Other WritingsSignet Classic, 1961 - 352 Seiten Benjamin Franklin's writings represent a long career of literary, scientific, and political efforts over a lifetime which extended nearly the entire eighteenth century. Franklin's achievements range from inventing the lightning rod to publishing Poor Richard's Almanack to signing the Declaration of Independence. In his own lifetime he knew prominence not only in America but in Britain and France as well. This volume includes Franklin's reflections on such diverse questions as philosophy and religion, social status, electricity, American national characteristics, war, and the status of women. Nearly sixty years separate the earliest writings from the latest, an interval during which Franklin was continually balancing between the puritan values of his upbringing and the modern American world to which his career served as prologue. This edition provides a new text of the Autobiography, established with close reference to Franklin's original manuscript. It also includes a new transcription of the 1726 journal, and several pieces which have recently been identified as Franklin's own work. |
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... mention being made of the new printing office at the merchants ' Every - night Club , the general opinion was that it must fail , there being already two printers in the place , Keimer and Bradford ; but Doctor Baird ( whom you and I ...
... mention being made of the new printing office at the merchants ' Every - night Club , the general opinion was that it must fail , there being already two printers in the place , Keimer and Bradford ; but Doctor Baird ( whom you and I ...
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... mention as a cau- tion to young printers , that they may be encouraged not to pollute their presses and disgrace their profession by such infamous practices but refuse steadily , as they may see by my example that such a course of ...
... mention as a cau- tion to young printers , that they may be encouraged not to pollute their presses and disgrace their profession by such infamous practices but refuse steadily , as they may see by my example that such a course of ...
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... mention , because the European papers on Electricity , frequently speak of rubbing the tube , as a fatiguing exercise . Our spheres are fixed on iron axes , which pass through them . At one end of the axis there is a small handle , with ...
... mention , because the European papers on Electricity , frequently speak of rubbing the tube , as a fatiguing exercise . Our spheres are fixed on iron axes , which pass through them . At one end of the axis there is a small handle , with ...
Inhalt
Introduction | 7 |
PART ONEThe Autobiography | 15 |
PART TWO Selected Writings | 182 |
Urheberrecht | |
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