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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... perhaps unhappily , took the boy into the family . Franklin and Deborah had two children of their own , a boy , Francis , and a girl , Sarah ( Sally ) . Franklin seems to have been devoted to all of them . He was deeply grieved when ...
... perhaps unhappily , took the boy into the family . Franklin and Deborah had two children of their own , a boy , Francis , and a girl , Sarah ( Sally ) . Franklin seems to have been devoted to all of them . He was deeply grieved when ...
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... perhaps we are seldom in the humour for it together . I rise in the morning and read for an hour or two perhaps , and then reading grows tiresome . Want of exercise occasions want of appetite , so that eating and drinking affords but ...
... perhaps we are seldom in the humour for it together . I rise in the morning and read for an hour or two perhaps , and then reading grows tiresome . Want of exercise occasions want of appetite , so that eating and drinking affords but ...
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... ( perhaps more properly falling ) 80. & I leave the Excuse with you till you arrive at that Age ; perhaps you may then be more sensible of its Validity , and see fit to use it for your self . I must agree with you that the Gout is bad ...
... ( perhaps more properly falling ) 80. & I leave the Excuse with you till you arrive at that Age ; perhaps you may then be more sensible of its Validity , and see fit to use it for your self . I must agree with you that the Gout is bad ...
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... 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 even a Drop of Water wasted , I cannot ...
... 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 even a Drop of Water wasted , I cannot ...
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... perhaps , as readily refuse me : So that I find little real Advantage in being belov'd , but it pleases my Humour . Now it is near four Months since I have been favour'd with a single Line from you ; but I will not be angry with you ...
... perhaps , as readily refuse me : So that I find little real Advantage in being belov'd , but it pleases my Humour . Now it is near four Months since I have been favour'd with a single Line from you ; but I will not be angry with you ...
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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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