The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinRegnery History, 2006 - 484 páginas "Benjamin Franklin's celebrated autobiography, published after his death ... but it was incomplete. Franklin ended his life's story in 1757, when he was only fifty-one. He planned to write more ... but never did. He lived another thirty-three full, eventful, and dramatic years ... Franklin is one of the most fascinating of the Founding Fathers - a polymath like Jefferson, a practical statesman like Washington, and a cynic and wit beyond parallel. Now, at last, in The Compleated Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin, we finally get the rest of the story, in Franklin's own words. Faithfully compiled and edited from Franklin's papers by Dr. Mark Skousen - Franklin's descendant, acting as his devoted secretary - this is the closest we will ever get to Franklin sitting down in his study in Philadelphia, dipping quill into ink, and finishing his autobiography"--Publisher's description. |
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... whole city , miserable , dirty , broken shabby things , unfit to go into when dress'd clean , and such as one would be asham'd to get out of at any gentle- man's door . The whole town was one great smoky house , and every street a ...
... whole city , miserable , dirty , broken shabby things , unfit to go into when dress'd clean , and such as one would be asham'd to get out of at any gentle- man's door . The whole town was one great smoky house , and every street a ...
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... whole of this business had been conducted was such a miracle in human affairs , that if I had not been in the midst of it , and seen all the movements , I could not have compre- hended how it was effected . To comprehend it we must view ...
... whole of this business had been conducted was such a miracle in human affairs , that if I had not been in the midst of it , and seen all the movements , I could not have compre- hended how it was effected . To comprehend it we must view ...
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... whole is a mystery even to the politicians ; how we were able to continue a war four years without money ; and how we could pay with paper that had no previously fix'd fund appropriated specif- ically to redeem it . This currency as we ...
... whole is a mystery even to the politicians ; how we were able to continue a war four years without money ; and how we could pay with paper that had no previously fix'd fund appropriated specif- ically to redeem it . This currency as we ...
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A Continuation of the Account of My Life | 1 |
Preface by Benjamin Franklin 1789 | 21 |
Second Mission to England 176475 31 | 75 |
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The Compleated Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin: 1757-1790 Benjamin Franklin Vista previa limitada - 2007 |
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