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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... natural world he found around him, how he dealt with the joys and sorrows, the puzzles and problems that the company of other human beings brought him, and, more particularly, how he responded to the oppor- tunities and responsibilities ...
... natural world he found around him, how he dealt with the joys and sorrows, the puzzles and problems that the company of other human beings brought him, and, more particularly, how he responded to the oppor- tunities and responsibilities ...
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... natural temper and disposition of their humble servants . Let the ladies make one long sea voyage with them , and if they have the least spark of ill nature in them and conceal it to the end of the voyage , I [ 14 ] THE MAN.
... natural temper and disposition of their humble servants . Let the ladies make one long sea voyage with them , and if they have the least spark of ill nature in them and conceal it to the end of the voyage , I [ 14 ] THE MAN.
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... their covering while they remained in the condition of embrios , sticking close to his natural shell upon his back . This sufficiently confirms me in my opinion of the manner of their generation THE YOUNG MAN AND THE OLD MAN [ 17 ]
... their covering while they remained in the condition of embrios , sticking close to his natural shell upon his back . This sufficiently confirms me in my opinion of the manner of their generation THE YOUNG MAN AND THE OLD MAN [ 17 ]
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... natural to wish to be well spoken of, whether alive or dead, that I imagine he could not be quite exempt from that Desire, and that at least he wish'd to be thought a Wit, or he would not have given himself the Trouble of writing so ...
... natural to wish to be well spoken of, whether alive or dead, that I imagine he could not be quite exempt from that Desire, and that at least he wish'd to be thought a Wit, or he would not have given himself the Trouble of writing so ...
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... natural Reduction of com- pound Substances to their original Elements , capable of being employ'd in new Compositions , he has prevented the Necessity of creating new Matter ; for that the Earth , Water , Air & perhaps fire , which ...
... natural Reduction of com- pound Substances to their original Elements , capable of being employ'd in new Compositions , he has prevented the Necessity of creating new Matter ; for that the Earth , Water , Air & perhaps fire , which ...
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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