The Autobiography Of Benjamin FranklinDiamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd, 2020 M08 31 - 240 páginas Benjamin Franklin was a renowned polymath and a scientist extraordinaire. He was one of the members of the Committee of Five that drafted and presented America’s Declaration of Independence and also one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.He was titled - ‘The First American’.The book - “Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin” brings for readers one of the first examples of the fulfillment of the American Dream.Every page of this book is full of his wit and wisdom making it a remarkable one.This work continues to remain the most influential autobiography ever written, as claimed. |
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... natural knowledge. He was one of the eight foreign associates of the French Academy of Science. The careful study of the Autobiography is also valuable because of the style in which it is written. If Robert Louis Stevenson is right in ...
... natural knowledge. He was one of the eight foreign associates of the French Academy of Science. The careful study of the Autobiography is also valuable because of the style in which it is written. If Robert Louis Stevenson is right in ...
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... natural that his grandson, William Temple Franklin, in editing the work changed some of the phrases because he thought them inelegant and vulgar. Franklin began the story of his life while on a visit to his friend, Bishop Shipley, at ...
... natural that his grandson, William Temple Franklin, in editing the work changed some of the phrases because he thought them inelegant and vulgar. Franklin began the story of his life while on a visit to his friend, Bishop Shipley, at ...
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... natural in old men, to be talking of themselves and their own past actions; and I shall indulge it without being tiresome to others, who, through respect to age, might conceive themselves obliged to give me a hearing, since this may be ...
... natural in old men, to be talking of themselves and their own past actions; and I shall indulge it without being tiresome to others, who, through respect to age, might conceive themselves obliged to give me a hearing, since this may be ...
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... naturally unequal to it. I took the contrary side, perhaps a little for dispute's sake. He was naturally more eloquent, had a ready plenty of words, and sometimes, as I thought, bore me down more by his fluency than by the strength of ...
... naturally unequal to it. I took the contrary side, perhaps a little for dispute's sake. He was naturally more eloquent, had a ready plenty of words, and sometimes, as I thought, bore me down more by his fluency than by the strength of ...
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... natural philosophy, to come with mine and me to New York, where he propos'd to wait for me. My father, tho' he did not approve Sir William's proposition, was yet pleas'd that I had been able to obtain so advantageous a character from a ...
... natural philosophy, to come with mine and me to New York, where he propos'd to wait for me. My father, tho' he did not approve Sir William's proposition, was yet pleas'd that I had been able to obtain so advantageous a character from a ...
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First Visit to London | |
Beginning Business in Philadelphia | |
Business Success and First Public Service | |
Public Services and Duties | |
Albany Plan of Union | |
Quarrels with the Proprietary Governors | |
Braddocks Expedition | |
Franklins Defense of the Frontier | |
Scientific Experiments | |
Agent of Pennsylvania in London | |
Appendix Electrical Kite | |
Plan for Attaining Moral Perfection | |
Poor Richards Almanac and Other Activities | |
Interest in Public Affairs | |
Defense of the Province | |
The Way to Wealth | |
The Whistle | |
A Letter to Samuel Mather | |
Bibliography | |
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