Category: Biographies
The precise explanation of the great concourse of friends that Franklin drew about him, at the different stages of his long journey through the world, is to be found partly in his robust, honorable character and mental gifts. The sterner virtues, which are necessarily the foun...
The career of Franklin as a public official began in 1736, when he was appointed Clerk of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania. In this position, he remained until his retiremen...
8. SCENE IV. _Rodrigue_ and _Fell_, the Apothecary_Rodrigue._ You promised to have this Pandolpho upon his Bier in less than a Week; 'tis more than a Month since, and he still walks and stares me in the face.
5. did. He says they are not a moral people; they know not what it is; heJohn Laurens, too, when he came over to Paris to solicit money for the American army, _beau sabreur_ as he was, handled the French as awkwardly as the rest. "He was indefatigabl...
6. CHAPTER IVFranklin, as we have said, was primarily a man of action. If we do not always think of him as deeply involved in what Goethe calls "being's ocean, action's storm," it is only be...
3. CHAPTER IIThe business career of Franklin did not move upon such an exalted plane as his scientific or political career, but it was the basis on which the entire superstructure of his ren...
2. CHAPTER IThe precise explanation of the great concourse of friends that Franklin drew about him, at the different stages of his long journey through the world, is to be found partly in h...
7. CHAPTER VFranklin, as Hume truly said, was the first great man of letters, for whom Great Britain was beholden to America, and, among his writings, are some that will always remain class...
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