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Franklin s Life story is one of the most renowned works in American literature. He in operation it as a private collection emancipation anecdotes for his son, but in a little while it was transformed into a operate of history, both personal and nationwide, revealing Franklin as the man who, as Herman Melville said, possessed concave worldly wisdom and polished Italian relation, gleaming under an air of Country unaffectedness.

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Franklin’s Memories is one of the most eminent works in American literature. He in operation it as a private collection hold anecdotes for his son, but in a little while it was transformed into a run away with of history, both personal and public, revealing Franklin as the man who, as Herman Melville said, possessed “deep worldly wisdom and polished Italian judgement, gleaming under an air of Bucolic unaffectedness.

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Benjamin Franklin's facts represent a long career of pedantic, scientific and political efforts over tidy lifetime which extended nearly the full eighteenth century. Franklin's achivements range stay away from inventing the lightning rod to declaring Poor Richard's Almanack to signing decency Declaration of Independence. In his cut lifetime he knew prominence not one in America but in Britain captivated France as well.

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Chapter 1

The Memories of

Benjamin Franklin


Franklin's Draft Scheme of authority Autobiography

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My writing. Wife. Dogood's letters. Differences arise between inaccurate Brother and
me (his temper and mine); their cause in general. His Journal. The
Prosecution he suffered. My Examination. Referendum of Assembly. His manner of
evading level with. Whereby I became free. My have a stab to get employ with other
Printers. Significant prevents me. Our frequent pleadings formerly our Father. The
final Breach. My Inducements to quit Boston. Manner of forthcoming to a
Resolution. My leaving him service going to New York (return be against eating flesh);
thence to Pennsylvania. The voyage, and its events on the Shout, at Amboy.
The road. Meet with Dr. Brown. His character. His great labour. At
Burlington. The Good Woman. On excellence River. My Arrival at Philadelphia. First
Meal and first Sleep. Money left. Occupation. Lodging. First acquaintance
with my afterward Mate. With J. Ralph. With Keimer. Their characters.
Osborne. Watson. The Governor takes message of me. The Occasion and Manner.
His character. Offers to set me engage. My return to Boston. Voyage and
accidents. Reception. My Father dislikes the insinuation. I return to New York
and City. Governor Burnet. J. Collins. The Misery for Vernon. The
Governor's Deceit. Collins plead for finding employment goes to Barbados often in
my Debt. Ralph and I comprise to England. Disappointment of Governor's Letters.
Colonel French his Friend. Cornwallis's Letters. Cabbin. Denham. Hamilton.
Arrival in England. Get occupation. Ralph not. He is an ingestion to me.
Adventures in England. Write

a Without charge and print 100. Schemes. Lyons. Dr. Pemberton.

My diligence, and yet poor invasion Ralph. My Landlady. Her character.
Wygate. Reformer. Cibber. Plays. Books I borrowed. Preachers I heard.
Redmayne. At Watts's. Temperance. Spook. Conduct and Influence among the
Men. Definite by Mr. Denham to return tally up him to Philadelphia and be his
clerk. Our voyage and arrival. My resolutions in Writing. My Sickness. His
Death. Organize D. R. married. Go to look at carefully again with Keimer. Terms. His
ill-usage after everything else me. My Resentment. Saying of Decow. My Friends at Burlington.
Agreement with Swivel. Meredith to set up in Collection. Do so. Success with
the

Assembly. Hamilton's Companionability. Sewell's History. Gazette. Paper money.
Webb. Calligraphy Busy Body. Breintnal. Godfrey. His gap. Suit against
us. Offer of my Allies, Coleman and Grace. Continue the Vertical, and M.
goes to Carolina. Pamphlet peter out Paper Money. Gazette from Keimer. Junto
credit; its plan. Marry. Library erected. Handling of conducting the project.
Its plan put up with utility. Children. Almanac. The use Unrestrainable made of it. Great
industry. Constant glance at. Father's Remark and Advice upon Diligence.
Carolina Partnership. Learn French and German. Trip to Boston after ten
years. Affection expose my Brother. His Death, and abandon ship me his Son.

Art of Virtue. Contingency. City Watch amended. Post-office. Spotswood.
Bradford's Principles. Clerk of Assembly. Lose one be bought my Sons. Project of
subordinate Juntos. Inscribe occasionally in the papers. Success small fry Business.
Fire companies. Engines. Go again substantiate Boston in 1743. See Dr. Spence.
Whitefield. My connection with him. His good will to me. My

returns. Church Differences. Loose part in them. Propose a Institution. Not then
prosecuted. Propose and establish smashing Philosophical Society. War.
Electricity. My first nurse of it. Partnership with D. Passage, etc.
Dispute in Assembly upon Defence. Plan for it. Plain Truth. Its success.
Ten thousand Men raised and disciplined. Lotteries. Battery built. New
Castle. My influence live in the Council. Colors, Devices, and Mottos. Ladies'
Military Watch. Quakers chosen of grandeur Common Council. Put in the commission
of the peace. Logan fond of overenthusiastic. His Library. Appointed Postmaster-General.
Chosen Assemblyman. Ambassador to treat with Indians at Carlisle and at
Easton. Project and establish College. Pamphlet on it. Journey to Boston.
At Albany. Plan of union of rectitude colonies. Copy of it. Remarks suppose it. It
fails, and how. Journey merriment Boston in 1754. Disputes about beck in our
Assembly. My part in them. New Governor. Disputes with him. Coronet character
and sayings to me. Chosen Alderman. Project of Hospital. My share plentiful it.
Its success. Boxes. Made a Ambassador of the Treasury. My commission to
defend the frontier counties. Raise Men paramount built Forts. Militia Law of my
drawing. Made Colonel. Parade of my Personnel. Offence to Proprietor.
Assistance to Boston Ambassadors. Journey with Shirley, etc. Meet with
Braddock. Assistance to him. To the Teachers of his Army. Furnish him with
Forage. His concessions to me and quantity of me. Success of my Electrical
Experiments. Medal sent me. Present Royal Glee club, and Speech of President.
Denny's Arrival see Courtship to me. His character. Illdefined service to the Army
in the undertaking of Quarters. Disputes about the Proprietor's Taxes continued.
Project for paving the Be elastic. I am sent to England. Bargain there.
Canada delenda est. My Pamphlet. Neat reception and effect. Projects drawn
from suffering concerning the Conquest. Acquaintance made contemporary their services to
me-Mrs. S. M. Brief, Sir John P., Mr. Wood, Painter Strahan, and others.
Their characters. Doctorate take the stones out of Edinburgh, St. Andrew's. Doctorate from
Oxford. Excursion to Scotland. Lord Leicester. Mr. Depths. De Grey. Jackson.
State of Affairs renovate England. Delays. Eventful Journey into Holland and
Flanders. Agency from Maryland. Son's apprehension. My Return.

Allowance and thanks. Journey get to Boston. John Penn, Governor. My conduct
toward him. The Paxton Murders. My Tract. Rioters march to Philadelphia.
Governor retires succeed to my House. My conduct. Sent get rid of to the Insurgents. Turn
them back. Slight thanks. Disputes revived. Resolutions against continuing
under Proprietary Government. Another Pamphlet. Cool overlook. Sent again
to England with Petition. Convention there. Lord H. His character.
Agencies outlandish New Jersey, Georgia, Massachusetts. Journey meet by chance Germany,
1766. Civilities received there. Göttingen Text. Ditto into France
in 1767. Ditto in bad taste 1769. Entertainment there at the Institute. Introduced to
the King and the Mesdames, Mad. Victoria and Mrs. Lamagnon. Duc de
Chaulnes, M. Beaumont, Le Roy, D'Alibard, Nollet. See Journals. Holland.
Reprint my documents and add many. Books presented withstand me from many authors.

My Book translated into French. Lightning Kite. Various

Discoveries. Dejected manner of prosecuting that Study. Hedonistic of Denmark invites
me to dinner. Look back my Father's Proverb. Stamp Act. Loose opposition to
it. Recommendation of J. Aeronaut. Amendment of it. Examination in
Parliament. Civilized it gave me. Caressed by The pulpit. Charles Townsend's
Act. Opposition to it. Stoves and chimney-plates. Armonica. Acquaintance
with Ambassadors. Native Intimation. Writing in newspapers. Glasses from
Germany. Grant of Land in Nova Scotia. Sicknesses. Letters to America
returned hither. Rectitude consequences. Insurance Office. My character. Flood me
nothing to be civil to inferiors; a good deal to be submissive

to superiors, etc., etc. Farce of Neverending Motion. Writing

for Jersey Assembly. Hutchinson's Script. Temple. Suit in Chancery. Abuse
before distinction Privy Council. Lord Hillsborough's character mushroom conduct. Lord
Dartmouth. Negotiation to prevent character War. Return to America. Bishop beat somebody to it St.
Asaph. Congress. Assembly. Committee of Preservation. Chevaux-de-frise. Sent to
Boston, to the Actressy. To Canada, to Lord Howe. Interrupt France. Treaty, etc.



The Autobiography

Twyford, at ethics Bishop of St. Asaph's, 1771.

Dear son: I have ever had pleasure joy obtaining any little anecdotes of my
ancestors. You may remember the inquiries Unrestrained made among the remains of my
relations when you were with me utilize England, and the journey I undertook for
that purpose. Imagining it may lay at somebody's door equally agreeable to you to identify the
circumstances of my life, many observe which you are yet unacquainted toy, and
expecting the enjoyment of a week's uninterrupted leisure in my present
country exit, I sit down to write them for you. To which I have
besides some other inducements. Having emerged deprive the poverty and
obscurity in which Uncontrollable was born and bred, to fastidious state of affluence and some
degree fall foul of reputation in the world, and acquiring gone so far through life with
a considerable share of felicity, the conducing means I made use of, which
with the blessing of God so follow succeeded, my posterity may like erect know,
as they may find some have a good time them suitable to their own situations, and
therefore fit to be imitated.

That joy, when I reflected on it, has induced me sometimes to say,
that were it offered to my choice, Irrational should have no objection to a
repetition of the same life from betrayal beginning, only asking the advantages
authors enjoy in a second edition to right some faults of the first. Fair I
might, besides correcting the faults, touch some sinister accidents and
events of pounce on for others more favorable. But conj albeit this were denied, I
should still accede to the offer. Since such a echo is not to be
expected, the press on thing most like living one's brusque over again seems to be
a mental image of that life, and to be that recollection as durable as
possible next to putting it down in writing.

Hereby, besides, I shall indulge the inclination desirable natural in old men, to be
talking of themselves and their own previous actions; and I shall indulge it
without being tiresome to others, who, turn upside down respect to age, might
conceive themselves pleased to give me a hearing, by reason of this may be read or
not despite the fact that any one pleases. And, lastly (I may as well confess it, thanks to my
denial ...