Autobiography and Other WritingsBenjamin Franklin's writings represent a long career of literary, scientific, and political efforts over a lifetime which extended nearly the entire eighteenth century. Franklin's achievements range from inventing the lightning rod to publishing Poor Richard's Almanack to signing the Declaration of Independence. In his own lifetime he knew prominence not only in America but in Britain and France as well. This volume includes Franklin's reflections on such diverse questions as philosophy and religion, social status, electricity, American national characteristics, war, and the status of women. Nearly sixty years separate the earliest writings from the latest, an interval during which Franklin was continually balancing between the puritan values of his upbringing and the modern American world to which his career served as prologue. This edition provides a new text of the Autobiography, established with close reference to Franklin's original manuscript. It also includes a new transcription of the 1726 journal, and several pieces which have recently been identified as Franklin's own work. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. |
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... hope it will be duly regarded . Such writings , though they may be lightly passed over by many readers , yet , if they make a deep impression on one active mind in a hundred , the effects may be considerable . Permit me to mention one ...
... hope it will be duly regarded . Such writings , though they may be lightly passed over by many readers , yet , if they make a deep impression on one active mind in a hundred , the effects may be considerable . Permit me to mention one ...
Page 351
... hope therefore that for our own Sakes , as a Part of the People , and for the Sake of our Posterity , we shall act heartily & unanimously in recommending this Constitution , wherever our Influence may extend , and turn our future ...
... hope therefore that for our own Sakes , as a Part of the People , and for the Sake of our Posterity , we shall act heartily & unanimously in recommending this Constitution , wherever our Influence may extend , and turn our future ...
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... building their new Places of Worship ; and , as I have never opposed any of their Doc- trines , I hope to go out of the World in Peace with them all . 1 EXPLANATORY NOTES 3 Twyford , at the Bishop of St 354 Letter to Ezra Stiles.
... building their new Places of Worship ; and , as I have never opposed any of their Doc- trines , I hope to go out of the World in Peace with them all . 1 EXPLANATORY NOTES 3 Twyford , at the Bishop of St 354 Letter to Ezra Stiles.
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