Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago

CHAPTER IV.

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_Mental and Moral Conflicts._

Faithfulness to work--Neglect of Deborah Read--Treatise on Liberty and Necessity--Skill in swimming--Return to America--Marriage of Miss Read--Severe sickness--Death of Mr. Denham--Returns to Keimer's employ--The Junto--His Epitaph--Reformation of his treatise on Liberty and Necessity--Franklin's creed. 75