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 |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 24
Seite 15
... conversation , it is productive of disgusts , and perhaps enmities , with those who may have occasion for friendship . I had caught this by reading my father's books of dispute on religion . ns of good sense , I have since observed ...
... conversation , it is productive of disgusts , and perhaps enmities , with those who may have occasion for friendship . I had caught this by reading my father's books of dispute on religion . ns of good sense , I have since observed ...
Seite 20
... conversation are to n or to be informed , to please or to persuade , I well - meaning and sensible men would not lessen power of doing good by a positive assuming man- at seldom fails to disgust , tends to create opposi- and to defeat ...
... conversation are to n or to be informed , to please or to persuade , I well - meaning and sensible men would not lessen power of doing good by a positive assuming man- at seldom fails to disgust , tends to create opposi- and to defeat ...
Seite 22
... conversations and their accounts of the approba- heir papers were received with , I was excited to y hand among them . But being still a boy , and cting that my brother would object to printing ing of mine in his paper if he knew it to ...
... conversations and their accounts of the approba- heir papers were received with , I was excited to y hand among them . But being still a boy , and cting that my brother would object to printing ing of mine in his paper if he knew it to ...
Seite 28
... conversation . Defoe has imitated him success- n his “ Robinson Crusoe , ” in his " Moll Flanders , " cher pieces ; and Richardson has done the same in Pamela , " etc. approaching the island we found it was in a where there could be no ...
... conversation . Defoe has imitated him success- n his “ Robinson Crusoe , ” in his " Moll Flanders , " cher pieces ; and Richardson has done the same in Pamela , " etc. approaching the island we found it was in a where there could be no ...
Seite 29
... conversation with me while I took some refreshment , and finding I had read a little , became very obliging and friendly . Our acquaintance continued all the rest of his life . He had been , I imagine , an ambulatory quack doctor , for ...
... conversation with me while I took some refreshment , and finding I had read a little , became very obliging and friendly . Our acquaintance continued all the rest of his life . He had been , I imagine , an ambulatory quack doctor , for ...
Inhalt
1 | |
27 | |
Abschnitt 3 | 53 |
Abschnitt 4 | 68 |
Abschnitt 5 | 81 |
Abschnitt 6 | 97 |
Abschnitt 7 | 117 |
Abschnitt 8 | 133 |
Abschnitt 13 | 221 |
Abschnitt 14 | 235 |
Abschnitt 15 | 237 |
Abschnitt 16 | 239 |
Abschnitt 17 | 258 |
Abschnitt 18 | 260 |
Abschnitt 19 | 264 |
Abschnitt 20 | 279 |
Abschnitt 9 | 152 |
Abschnitt 10 | 170 |
Abschnitt 11 | 190 |
Abschnitt 12 | 208 |
Abschnitt 21 | 282 |
Abschnitt 22 | 284 |
Abschnitt 23 | 312 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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