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Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Apr 6, 2021

by Benjamin Franklin

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Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Annotated) Apr 6, 2021

by Benjamin Franklin

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs.

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin[Newly Revised Edition](annotated) Mar 13, 2021

by Benjamin Franklin , Gerald Triplett

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"Inventor, author, printer, scientist, politician, diplomat—all these terms do not even begin to fully describe the amazing and multitalented, Benjamin Franklin who was of course also one of the Founding Fathers of America.

At the age of 75, in 1771 he began work on what he called his Memoirs. He was still working on it when he died in 1790 and it was published posthumously, entitled An Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. The book had a complicated and controversial publication history. Strangely enough, the first volume only was first published in French, in Paris in 1791. Later in 1793 a couple of English translations appeared containing the second volume as well. In 1818 Franklin's grandson brought out a three volume edition, which left out the last unfinished fourth volume. William Temple Franklin also took great liberties with the text and made his own revisions. However, in 1868, publisher John Bigelow purchased the original and complete manuscript and brought out the most complete edition so far. The 20th century saw several scholars bring out more definitive and complete versions.

An Autobiography... was written apparently to apprise his son about the events of his life and also meant to be a treatise that would lead to the self betterment of the younger generation. As a book, it is a difficult and complex read. The tone is often meandering, arrogant and condescending in turn and does not have a consistent feel. Written over an extended time period, there are large gaps in sequence and often the author contradicts his own recounting of events. In fact, it ends abruptly, without a shred of information about Franklin's seminal role in the American Revolution. Yet, two centuries after its debut, it remains widely read and acclaimed, valued for its being almost the first autobiography to have been written in English. Its extensive advice on how to go about achieving a list of virtues is probably the first ever self-help book.

As a glimpse of life in 18th century America, it is unrivaled. An Autobiography... also provides readers with the immense possibilities that the New World holds. A poor middleclass youth, one of 10 children, whose parents could hardly afford to send him to school, who attains learning and honest employment by dint of sheer hard work can even today be said to represent the American Dream. With the publication of An Autobiography... it was possible for this new and emerging superpower to establish a history and tradition of its own.

As a slice of history, An Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is indeed an interesting and riveting read.
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Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Illustrated, Vintage Classics Edition, Original Classic Novel Mar 7, 2021

by Benjamin Franklin

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklin's death, this work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written.

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Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: with colored illustrations Feb 20, 2021

by Benjamin Franklin , E. Boyd Smith

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Contains colored illustrations

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklin's death, this work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written.

Franklin's account of his life is divided into four parts, reflecting the different periods at which he wrote them. There are actual breaks in the narrative between the first three parts, but Part Three's narrative continues into Part Four without an authorial break.

In the "Introduction" of the 1916 publication of the Autobiography, editor F. W. Pine wrote that Franklin's biography provided the "most remarkable of all the remarkable histories of our self-made men" with Franklin as the greatest exemplar.

Poor Richard's Almanack Jun 3, 2020

by Benjamin Franklin

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Originally re-published in 1914, this version of Poor Richard’s Almanack includes a brief history of Benjamin Franklin’s life as well as hundreds of his words of wisdom, wit, and humour. From: “Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” to ” He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas.” and a huge variety in-between, this founding father’s words live on today and are still applicable.

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256 quotations from Benjamin Franklin Feb 10, 2021

by Benjamin Franklin

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"Though your beginnings were modest, your latter days will be full of prosperity." Expressing Benjamin Franklin's life in a sentence, it seems similar to Job 8:7. He was born in poor family and hardly educated. He started as a poor employee of a print house, and became one of the writers of the Declaration of Independence of America. He became as important person as to be printed on a hundred-dollar bill.
Benjamin Franklin thought reading was the important ways to ensure better life. Every year he printed 'Poor Richard's Almanac' for a long time. Also printed a lot of quotations in the margins of the Almanac. He hoped the people who has no time to read books to read short messages and get help. The quotations contain wits, insight into life, and philosophy building America the best country of the world.
'256 quotations from Benjamin Franklin' is consisted 256 quotations.
Each pages contain a lot of blank space. Blank space will prevent you floating on from a quotation to a quotation, and help to feel the meaning of the each quotation deeply.
'256 quotations from Benjamin Franklin' is a book reading slowly and bit by bit.
"Read much, but not many books." - Benjamin Franklin

We the 21st century's people have no time to read books too, because we spend all day fixing eyes on smart phones everyday. That makes us hardly read books. We can read only short sentences or during short seconds.
"256 quotations from Benjamin Franklin" matches well with our shortly patterned reading. Although we read for a second each quotations, but we can get the full effect of reading. Each quotations provide us fun and information. These will occur certain chemical reactions in our mind, ensuring better life.

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The ABC of Money Dec 14, 2015

by Andrew Carnegie

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From the days of farmer's bartering for bushels of corn to establishing the concept of credit, this practical guide gets at the root of the subject of money: why it exists and, more importantly, what money really is. THE ABC OF MONEY is an undiscovered gem offering a wealth of knowledge and Carnegie's shrewd philosophies on the subject - a fascinating look at the history of "debased coin" and "greenbacks," and the value of currency from one of the great American industrialists. ANDREW CARNEGIE (1835-1919) was an American industrialist and philanthropist. His previous works include "The Gospel of Wealth" (1889) setting forth his idea that rich men are "trustees" of their wealth and should administer it for the good of the public. Carnegie's benefactions (totaling about $350 million) included Carnegie Hall (1892) in New York City, the Carnegie Institution of Washington (1902), the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission (1904), the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (1905), the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1910), and over 2,800 libraries.

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Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Benjamin Franklin ( History,Americas) [Annotated] Jan 22, 2021

by Benjamin Franklin

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One of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written. Although the traditional name for the unfinished record is 'The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin', Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs.

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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: (Annotated Edition) Feb 8, 2021

by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

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Franklin starts writing his autobiography in 1771, addressing it to his “Dear Son” and beginning with his family history. He traces it back three hundred years to Ecton in Northamptonshire, England, and then brings it to his father Josiah’s arrival in New England to escape religious persecution. Josiah and his second wife, Abiah, settle in Boston with Franklin and his siblings. Franklin is quickly identified as intelligent but does not do well in school: he is told he must take up a trade. He strongly dislikes his father’s trade, tallow chandlery and soap boiling, and tries out a few others before being apprenticed to his brother James, a printer. He enjoys this trade and spends his leisure time perfecting his own writing.
James and Franklin do not get along; so, Franklin and his friend John Collins run away to Philadelphia. There Franklin gets work with a printer named Keimer, with whom he has a pleasant enough relationship.

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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AUTOBIOGRAPHY - ANNOTATED Oct 14, 2020

by Benjamin Franklin , Bryan Hunt , A.J. Alexander

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- Now with an all-new Biographical Sketch of Benjamin Franklin.
The life of Benjamin Franklin should be of importance to every American, primarily because of the part he played in securing the independence of the United States and in establishing it as a nation. Franklin shares with Washington the honors of the Revolution, and of the events leading to the birth of the new nation. While Washington was the animating spirit of the struggle in the colonies, Franklin was its ablest champion abroad. To Franklin's cogent reasoning and keen satire, we owe the clear and forcible presentation of the American case in England and France; while to his personality and diplomacy as well as to his facile pen, we are indebted for the foreign alliance and the funds without which Washington's work must have failed. His patience, fortitude, and practical wisdom, coupled with self-sacrificing devotion to the cause of his country, are hardly less noticeable than similar qualities displayed by Washington. In fact, Franklin as a public man was much like Washington, especially in the entire disinterestedness of his public service.Franklin is also interesting to us because by his life and teachings he has done more than any other American to advance the material prosperity of his countrymen. It is said that his widely and faithfully read maxims made Philadelphia and Pennsylvania wealthy, while Poor Richard's pithy sayings, translated into many languages, have had a world-wide influence.Franklin is a good type of our American manhood. Although not the wealthiest or the most powerful, he is undoubtedly, in the versatility of his genius and achievements, the greatest of our self-made men. The simple yet graphic story in the Autobiography of his steady rise from humble boyhood in a tallow-chandler shop, by industry, economy, and perseverance in self-improvement, to eminence, is the most remarkable of all the remarkable histories of our self-made men. It is in itself a wonderful illustration of the results possible to be attained in a land of unequaled opportunity by following Franklin's maxims.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; the Unmutilated and Correct Version; Aug 23, 2014

by Franklin , Benjamin

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

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