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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... less alone than when alone . I acknowledge solitude an agreeable refreshment to a busy mind ; but were these thinking people obliged to be always alone , I am apt to think they would quickly find their very being insupportable to them ...
... less alone than when alone . I acknowledge solitude an agreeable refreshment to a busy mind ; but were these thinking people obliged to be always alone , I am apt to think they would quickly find their very being insupportable to them ...
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... less than the nail of my little finger . One of them had something particularly observable , to wit , a thin piece of the white shell which I before noticed as their covering while they remained in the condition of embrios , sticking ...
... less than the nail of my little finger . One of them had something particularly observable , to wit , a thin piece of the white shell which I before noticed as their covering while they remained in the condition of embrios , sticking ...
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... less than an hour we could descry it from the deck , appearing like tufts of trees . I could not discern it so soon as the rest ; my eyes were dimmed with the suffusion of two small drops of joy . By three o'clock we were run in within ...
... less than an hour we could descry it from the deck , appearing like tufts of trees . I could not discern it so soon as the rest ; my eyes were dimmed with the suffusion of two small drops of joy . By three o'clock we were run in within ...
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... less than the respect he accorded himself . His evenhanded posture stands out in letters to women because this was a time when women were frequently treated as less than equal , and as having minds ill suited to the contemplation and ...
... less than the respect he accorded himself . His evenhanded posture stands out in letters to women because this was a time when women were frequently treated as less than equal , and as having minds ill suited to the contemplation and ...
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... of others , 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 ]
... of others , 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 ]
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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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