Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1908) (Paperback)

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• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Number of Pages: 238
• ISBN: 0217442285
• WAPI (Tower ID): 113891708
• Release Date: August 1, 2009
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A FEW TRIBUTES TO FRANKLIN As a writer on morality and general literature, the merits of Dr. Franklin cannot be estimated properly without taking into consideration the peculiarities ... in his early history and situation. He never had the benefit of any academical instruc-, tion, nor of the society of men of letters. His style was formed entirely by his own judgment and occasional reading, and most of his moral pieces were written while he was a tradesman, addressing himself to the tradesmen of his native city. We cannot expect, therefore, that he should write with extraordinary eloquence or grace, . . . [but] that eloquence is the most meritorious that is calculated to convince and persuade the multitude to virtue. Nothing can be more perfectly and beautifully adapted to its object than most of Dr.. Franklin''s compositions of this sort. The tone of familiarity, of good will, and homely jocularity, the plain and pointed illustrations, the short sentences, made up of short words, and the strong sense, clear information, and obvious conviction of the author himself, make most of his moral exhortations perfect models of popular eloquence, and afford the finest specimens of a style which has been but too little cultivated. — Lord Jeffrey in The Edinburgh Review, July, 1806. If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired for talents, if to be esteemed for patriotism, if to be beloved for philanthropy, can gratify the human mind, you must have the pleasing consolation to know you have not lived in vain. George Washington. xvii I think I adequately appreciate the greatness of Washington, yet I must place Franklin above him as the consummate type and flowering of human nature under the skies of Colonial America. Horace Greeley. No individual, perhaps, ever possessed ...

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