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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... governor , George Keith . He could give me no employment , hav- ing little to do and hands enough already ; but he said , " My son at Philadelphia has lately lost his principal hand , Aquila Rose , by death ; if you go thither I believe ...
... governor , George Keith . He could give me no employment , hav- ing little to do and hands enough already ; but he said , " My son at Philadelphia has lately lost his principal hand , Aquila Rose , by death ; if you go thither I believe ...
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... governor of the province , was t Newcastle , and Captain Holmes , happening to company with him when my letter came to hand , to him of me and showed him the letter . The nor read it and seemed surprised when he was my age . He said I ...
... governor of the province , was t Newcastle , and Captain Holmes , happening to company with him when my letter came to hand , to him of me and showed him the letter . The nor read it and seemed surprised when he was my age . He said I ...
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... governor inquired for me , came up , and with a condescension and politeness I had been quite unused to made him many compliments , desired to be acquainted with me , blamed me kindly for not hav- ing made myself known to him when I ...
... governor inquired for me , came up , and with a condescension and politeness I had been quite unused to made him many compliments , desired to be acquainted with me , blamed me kindly for not hav- ing made myself known to him when I ...
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... governor gave me an ample letter , g many flattering things of me to my father and gly recommending the project of my setting up iladelphia as a thing that would make my for- We struck on a shoal in going down the bay prung a leak ; we ...
... governor gave me an ample letter , g many flattering things of me to my father and gly recommending the project of my setting up iladelphia as a thing that would make my for- We struck on a shoal in going down the bay prung a leak ; we ...
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... governor's letter with some surprise , but said little of it to me for some time . Captain Holmes returning , he showed it to him and asked him if he knew Sir William Keith , and what kind of a man he was ; adding that he must be of ...
... governor's letter with some surprise , but said little of it to me for some time . Captain Holmes returning , he showed it to him and asked him if he knew Sir William Keith , and what kind of a man he was ; adding that he must be of ...
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Including Poor Richard's Almanac ... Benjamin Franklin Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2005 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 101 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men...
Seite 105 - Resolution Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. 5. Frugality Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; ie, waste nothing. 6. Industry Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. 7. Sincerity Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
Seite 136 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the coppers.
Seite 104 - I concluded, at length, that the mere speculative conviction that it was our interest to be completely virtuous, was not sufficient to prevent our slipping ; and that the contrary habits must be broken, and good ones acquired and established, before we can have any dependence on a steady, uniform rectitude of conduct.
Seite 121 - I therefore filled all the little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue ; it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly, as, to use here one of those proverbs, it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.
Seite 91 - Our debates possessed me so fully of the subject that I wrote and printed an anonymous pamphlet on it, entitled The Nature and Necessity of a Paper Currency.
Seite 312 - Good,' which I think was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor, that several leaves of it were torn out ; but the remainder gave me such a turn of thinking, as to have an influence on my conduct through life ; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good than any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to that book.
Seite 33 - Street wharf, near the boat I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water; and, being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther. Thus...