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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... half of his long life ( eighty - four years ) . It was what he did in the second half that mattered , after he had left his business career behind . He was in his forties when he performed the electrical experiments and observations ...
... half of his long life ( eighty - four years ) . It was what he did in the second half that mattered , after he had left his business career behind . He was in his forties when he performed the electrical experiments and observations ...
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... half ) in London, working as a printer and sowing a few wild oats. Now he is aboard ship, waiting for a favoring wind to carry him back to Philadelphia. Waiting for the right wind was a common experience for voyagers in the age of sail ...
... half ) in London, working as a printer and sowing a few wild oats. Now he is aboard ship, waiting for a favoring wind to carry him back to Philadelphia. Waiting for the right wind was a common experience for voyagers in the age of sail ...
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... half what they ask , you pay twice as much as the thing is worth . Thank God , we shall leave it to - morrow . Saturday , July 23 This day we weighed anchor and fell down with the tide , there being little or no wind . In the afternoon ...
... half what they ask , you pay twice as much as the thing is worth . Thank God , we shall leave it to - morrow . Saturday , July 23 This day we weighed anchor and fell down with the tide , there being little or no wind . In the afternoon ...
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... could not discern the channel of the creek , but rowing heedlessly straight forward , when we were got about half way over , we found ourselves aground on a mud bank , and striving to row her o√ by putting our oars [ IO ] THE MAN.
... could not discern the channel of the creek , but rowing heedlessly straight forward , when we were got about half way over , we found ourselves aground on a mud bank , and striving to row her o√ by putting our oars [ IO ] THE MAN.
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... half an hour and more, we gave all over, and sat down with our hands before us, despairing to get o√; for if the tide had left us we had been never the nearer, we must have sat in the boat, as the mud was too deep for us to walk ashore ...
... half an hour and more, we gave all over, and sat down with our hands before us, despairing to get o√; for if the tide had left us we had been never the nearer, we must have sat in the boat, as the mud was too deep for us to walk ashore ...
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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