Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin FranklinYale University Press, 01.01.2006 - 303 Seiten This engaging book reveals Benjamin Franklin’s human side—his tastes and habits, his enthusiasms, and his devotion to democracy and the people of the United States. Three hundred years after his birth, we may remember Franklin’s famous Autobiography, or his status as framer of the Declaration of Independence and the peace with Great Britain, or his experiments in electricity, or perhaps his sage advice on diligence and thrift. But historian Edmund S. Morgan invites us to meet the man himself, a sociable, good-natured, and extraordinary human being with boundless curiosity about the natural world and a vision of what America could be. Drawing on lifelong research in the vast Franklin archives, Morgan assembles both famous and lesser-known writings that offer insights into this founding father’s thinking. The book is organized around four major themes, each with an introduction. The first section includes journal excerpts and letters revealing Franklin’s personal tastes and habits. The second is devoted to Franklin’s inexhaustible intellectual energy and his scientific discoveries. The third and fourth chronicle his devotion to serving the people who became the United States both before and after the Revolution and to advancing his democratic vision of their future. Franklin’s humanity and genius have never seemed more real than in the pages of this appealing anthology. |
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... matters that are echoed in his later life. It is a good place to meet an ordinary young man who never lost his ordinary character, even when his exploits raised him to a fame shared by no other American in the intellectual world of his ...
... matters that are echoed in his later life. It is a good place to meet an ordinary young man who never lost his ordinary character, even when his exploits raised him to a fame shared by no other American in the intellectual world of his ...
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... matter of course, for if ships are unequal in their sailing they seldom stay for one another, espe- cially strangers. This afternoon the wind that has been so long contrary to us, came about to the eastward (and looks as if it would ...
... matter of course, for if ships are unequal in their sailing they seldom stay for one another, espe- cially strangers. This afternoon the wind that has been so long contrary to us, came about to the eastward (and looks as if it would ...
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... Matter ; for that the Earth , Water , Air & perhaps fire , which , being compounded , from Wood , do when the Wood is dissolved return and again become Air , Earth , Fire and Water : I say that when I see nothing annihilated , and not ...
... Matter ; for that the Earth , Water , Air & perhaps fire , which , being compounded , from Wood , do when the Wood is dissolved return and again become Air , Earth , Fire and Water : I say that when I see nothing annihilated , and not ...
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... matters seriously . Like his friendship with Katy , their companionship lasted throughout his life . He was present at her marriage to William Hewson , a distinguished physician , in 1770. Hewson died in 1774 ; and after the ...
... matters seriously . Like his friendship with Katy , their companionship lasted throughout his life . He was present at her marriage to William Hewson , a distinguished physician , in 1770. Hewson died in 1774 ; and after the ...
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... for their Brightness may make yours the less distin- guish'd . To this End , 1. If possible engross the whole Discourse ; and when other Matter fails , talk much of your - self , your Education , FRIENDSHIP AND FLIRTATION [ 29 ]
... for their Brightness may make yours the less distin- guish'd . To this End , 1. If possible engross the whole Discourse ; and when other Matter fails , talk much of your - self , your Education , FRIENDSHIP AND FLIRTATION [ 29 ]
Inhalt
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Part II Nature observed | 67 |
Part III A continental vision | 141 |
Part IV War peace and humanity | 219 |
Chronology | 289 |
Credits | 291 |
Index | 297 |
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