The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Including Poor Richard's Almanac, and Familiar LettersCosimo, Inc., 01.12.2005 - 320 Seiten Printer, author, philanthropist, abolitionist, scientist, librarian, diplomat, inventor, philosopher, self-aggrandizer, and social wag, Benjamin Franklin is one of the most fascinating characters in all of American history - a quality that was not lost on the man himself, as his autobiography makes plain.Avoiding the strife of the American Revolution entirely, Franklin focuses his incisive wit on the culture and society of colonial Philadelphia, weaving a mostly true mythology of humble origins and hard work that created the concepts of "The American Dream" and "the self-made man."Originally published in French in 1791, and translated into English and published in London in 1793, this is considered the great autobiography of life in colonial America.American icon BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790), born in Massachusetts to a British immigrant father and colonial mother, published the famour Poor Richards' Almanack," helped found the University of Pennsylvania, and was the first Postmaster General of the United States. Franklin's likeness adorns, among other things, the United States hundred-dollar bill |
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... began to form the full sentences and complete the subject . This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts . By comparing my work with the original , I discovered many faults and corrected them ; but I sometimes had the ...
... began to form the full sentences and complete the subject . This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts . By comparing my work with the original , I discovered many faults and corrected them ; but I sometimes had the ...
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... began in the morning , Sundays , when I contrived to be in the printing- , avoiding as much as I could the constant at- nce at public worship which my father used to of me when I was under his care , and which I ontinued to consider a ...
... began in the morning , Sundays , when I contrived to be in the printing- , avoiding as much as I could the constant at- nce at public worship which my father used to of me when I was under his care , and which I ontinued to consider a ...
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... began to be considered a little more by my brother's acquaintance . However , that did not quite please him , as he thought it tended to make me too vain . This might be one occasion of the differences we began to have about this time ...
... began to be considered a little more by my brother's acquaintance . However , that did not quite please him , as he thought it tended to make me too vain . This might be one occasion of the differences we began to have about this time ...
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... began to consider me in an un- able light as a youth who had a turn for libeling atire . brother's discharge was accompanied with an and a very odd one , that " James Franklin should ger print the newspaper called the New England int ...
... began to consider me in an un- able light as a youth who had a turn for libeling atire . brother's discharge was accompanied with an and a very odd one , that " James Franklin should ger print the newspaper called the New England int ...
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... began to make me pointed at with horror by good people as an infidel and atheist . I concluded , therefore , to remove to New York ; but my father now siding with my brother , I was sensible that if I attempted to go openly means would ...
... began to make me pointed at with horror by good people as an infidel and atheist . I concluded , therefore , to remove to New York ; but my father now siding with my brother , I was sensible that if I attempted to go openly means would ...
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accordingly acquaintance advantage affairs afterward almanac appeared Assembly attend BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Boston bred brother brought called captain continued conversation cter debt dispute employed endeavor England father Franklin friends gave give Gnadenhutten Gout governor hand heard honor horses Hugh Meredith hundred pounds inconvenience Indians industry instructions JANE MECOM Keimer kind learned length letters Little Britain lived lodging London Lord Loudoun Lord Macclesfield Madeira wine master means mention mind Motto never night nklin observed occasion opinion paid paper Pennsylvania perhaps Philadelphia piece pleased pleasure Poor Richard says POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC pounds currency present printed printer printing-house proposed province Quakers received Riddlesden sailed sect sensible sent shillings sometimes soon street thee things thou thought thousand pounds tion told took virtue wagons walk writing wrote young