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Genre/Form: | Autobiography Autobiographies Biographies Biography |
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Named Person: | Benjamin Franklin; Benjamin Franklin; Benjamin Franklin; Benjamin Franklin |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Benjamin Franklin; Ormond Seavey |
ISBN: | 0192827332 9780192827333 9780199554904 0199554900 0192836692 9780192836694 |
OCLC Number: | 25787951 |
Description: | xxix, 361 pages ; 19 cm |
Contents: | Silence Dogood -- To 'your honour': defense of James Franklin to Samuel Sewall -- 1726 Journal -- Busy-body -- Epitaph -- On simplicity -- The death of infants -- Letter of Josiah & Abiah Franklin -- Apology for the young man in goal -- Old mistresses apologue -- The speech of Miss Polly baker -- Observations concerning the increase of mankind -- The kite experiment -- The way to wealth -- Poor Richard's maxims -- 'Homespun's' further defense of Indian corn -- An edict by the King of Prussia -- Letter of William Strahan -- Letter to Benjamin Vaughan -- The whistle -- Letter to George Washington -- Letter to Joseph Priestley -- Remarks concerning the savages of North-America -- Information to those who would remove to America -- Letter to Samuel Mather -- Letter to William Franklin -- The art of procuring pleasant dreams -- The internal state of America -- Speech in the Constitutional Convention at the conclusion of its deliberations -- Letter to Ezra Stiles. |
Series Title: | World's classics. |
Responsibility: | Benjamin Franklin ; edited by Ormond Seavey. |
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Abstract:
Franklin's writings represent a long career of literary, scientific and political efforts over a lifetime which extended nearly the entire 18th century. This edition provides a new text of the "Autobiography" and several pieces which have been identified as Franklin's own work.
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