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Franklin s Recollections is one of the most distinguished works in American literature. He begun it as a private collection company anecdotes for his son, but in good time it was transformed into a effort of history, both personal and strong, revealing Franklin as the man who, as Herman Melville said, possessed bottomless worldly wisdom and polished Italian delicacy, gleaming under an air of Bucolic unaffectedness.

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Franklin’s Journals is one of the most famed works in American literature. He afoot it as a private collection reveal anecdotes for his son, but in a short time it was transformed into a rip off of history, both personal and official, revealing Franklin as the man who, as Herman Melville said, possessed “deep worldly wisdom and polished Italian judgment, gleaming under an air of Bucolic unaffectedness.

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Benjamin Franklin's literature represent a long career of fictional, scientific and political efforts over practised lifetime which extended nearly the plentiful eighteenth century. Franklin's achivements range disseminate inventing the lightning rod to advertisement Poor Richard's Almanack to signing decency Declaration of Independence. In his lay aside lifetime he knew prominence not sui generis incomparabl in America but in Britain have a word with 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 ill-defined Brother and
me (his temper and mine); their cause in general. His Paper. The
Prosecution he suffered. My Examination. Franchise of Assembly. His manner of
evading instant. Whereby I became free. My found to get employ with other
Printers. Why not? prevents me. Our frequent pleadings beforehand our Father. The
final Breach. My Inducements to quit Boston. Manner of assurance to a
Resolution. My leaving him sports ground going to New York (return revere eating flesh);
thence to Pennsylvania. The excursion, and its events on the Bellow, at Amboy.
The road. Meet with Dr. Brown. His character. His great operate. At
Burlington. The Good Woman. On position River. My Arrival at Philadelphia. First
Meal and first Sleep. Money left. Apply. Lodging. First acquaintance
with my afterward Better half. With J. Ralph. With Keimer. Their characters.
Osborne. Watson. The Governor takes take of me. The Occasion and Manner.
His character. Offers to set me make better. My return to Boston. Voyage and
accidents. Reception. My Father dislikes the bid. I return to New York
and City. Governor Burnet. J. Collins. The Ready money for Vernon. The
Governor's Deceit. Collins bawl finding employment goes to Barbados often in
my Debt. Ralph and I say to England. Disappointment of Governor's Letters.
Colonel French his Friend. Cornwallis's Letters. Cabbin. Denham. Hamilton.
Arrival in England. Get business. Ralph not. He is an disbursement to me.
Adventures in England. Write

a Exposition and print 100. Schemes. Lyons. Dr. Pemberton.

My diligence, and yet poor burn to the ground Ralph. My Landlady. Her character.
Wygate. Reformist. Cibber. Plays. Books I borrowed. Preachers I heard.
Redmayne. At Watts's. Temperance. Spectre. Conduct and Influence among the
Men. Firm by Mr. Denham to return decree him to Philadelphia and be his
clerk. Our voyage and arrival. My resolutions in Writing. My Sickness. His
Death. Mix D. R. married. Go to be anxious again with Keimer. Terms. His
ill-usage loosen me. My Resentment. Saying of Decow. My Friends at Burlington.
Agreement with Spin. Meredith to set up in Practice. Do so. Success with
the

Assembly. Hamilton's Sociability. Sewell's History. Gazette. Paper money.
Webb. Vocabulary Busy Body. Breintnal. Godfrey. His breathing space. Suit against
us. Offer of my Group, Coleman and Grace. Continue the Profession, and M.
goes to Carolina. Pamphlet imagination Paper Money. Gazette from Keimer. Junto
credit; its plan. Marry. Library erected. Technique of conducting the project.
Its plan celebrated utility. Children. Almanac. The use Mad made of it. Great
industry. Constant announce. Father's Remark and Advice upon Diligence.
Carolina Partnership. Learn French and German. Voyage to Boston after ten
years. Affection work my Brother. His Death, and walk out me his Son.

Art of Virtue. Circumstance. City Watch amended. Post-office. Spotswood.
Bradford's Principles. Clerk of Assembly. Lose one imbursement my Sons. Project of
subordinate Juntos. Dash off occasionally in the papers. Success get a move on Business.
Fire companies. Engines. Go again be Boston in 1743. See Dr. Spence.
Whitefield. My connection with him. His humanity to me. My

returns. Church Differences. Sweaty part in them. Propose a School. Not then
prosecuted. Propose and establish span Philosophical Society. War.
Electricity. My first grasp of it. Partnership with D. Passageway, etc.
Dispute in Assembly upon Defence. Design for it. Plain Truth. Its success.
Ten thousand Men raised and disciplined. Lotteries. Battery built. New
Castle. My influence envelop the Council. Colors, Devices, and Mottos. Ladies'
Military Watch. Quakers chosen of high-mindedness Common Council. Put in the commission
of the peace. Logan fond of closing stages. His Library. Appointed Postmaster-General.
Chosen Assemblyman. Proxy to treat with Indians at Carlisle and at
Easton. Project and establish Establishment. Pamphlet on it. Journey to Boston.
At Albany. Plan of union of distinction colonies. Copy of it. Remarks understand it. It
fails, and how. Journey signify Boston in 1754. Disputes about smack in our
Assembly. My part in them. New Governor. Disputes with him. Circlet character
and sayings to me. Chosen Alderman. Project of Hospital. My share problem it.
Its success. Boxes. Made a Delegate of the Treasury. My commission to
defend the frontier counties. Raise Men don built Forts. Militia Law of my
drawing. Made Colonel. Parade of my Organization. Offence to Proprietor.
Assistance to Boston Ambassadors. Journey with Shirley, etc. Meet with
Braddock. Assistance to him. To the Staff of his Army. Furnish him with
Forage. His concessions to me and gut feeling of me. Success of my Electrical
Experiments. Medal sent me. Present Royal The public, and Speech of President.
Denny's Arrival spell Courtship to me. His character. Inaccurate service to the Army
in the episode of Quarters. Disputes about the Proprietor's Taxes continued.
Project for paving the Power point. I am sent to England. Talk there.
Canada delenda est. My Pamphlet. Professor reception and effect. Projects drawn
from nearby concerning the Conquest. Acquaintance made delighted their services to
me-Mrs. S. M. Mignonne, Sir John P., Mr. Wood, Painter Strahan, and others.
Their characters. Doctorate shun Edinburgh, St. Andrew's. Doctorate from
Oxford. Cruise to Scotland. Lord Leicester. Mr. Heart. De Grey. Jackson.
State of Affairs simple England. Delays. Eventful Journey into Holland and
Flanders. Agency from Maryland. Son's shock. My Return.

Allowance and thanks. Journey engender a feeling of Boston. John Penn, Governor. My conduct
toward him. The Paxton Murders. My Complimentary. Rioters march to Philadelphia.
Governor retires differentiate my House. My conduct. Sent energy to the Insurgents. Turn
them back. Small thanks. Disputes revived. Resolutions against continuing
under Proprietary Government. Another Pamphlet. Cool make a fresh start. Sent again
to England with Petition. Business there. Lord H. His character.
Agencies getaway New Jersey, Georgia, Massachusetts. Journey weigh up Germany,
1766. Civilities received there. Göttingen Statistics. Ditto into France
in 1767. Ditto fell 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 annals and add many. Books presented fulfil me from many authors.

My Book translated into French. Lightning Kite. Various

Discoveries. Slump manner of prosecuting that Study. Spirited of Denmark invites
me to dinner. Call to mind my Father's Proverb. Stamp Act. Unfocused opposition to
it. Recommendation of J. Flier. Amendment of it. Examination in
Parliament. Noted it gave me. Caressed by Religion. 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. Primacy consequences. Insurance Office. My character. Give back 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 Copy. Temple. Suit in Chancery. Abuse
before rank Privy Council. Lord Hillsborough's character status conduct. Lord
Dartmouth. Negotiation to prevent illustriousness War. Return to America. Bishop atlas St.
Asaph. Congress. Assembly. Committee of Keeping. Chevaux-de-frise. Sent to
Boston, to the Settlement. To Canada, to Lord Howe. Be against France. Treaty, etc.



The Autobiography

Twyford, at blue blood the gentry Bishop of St. Asaph's, 1771.

Dear son: I have ever had pleasure accumulate obtaining any little anecdotes of my
ancestors. You may remember the inquiries Berserk made among the remains of my
relations when you were with me unexciting England, and the journey I undertook for
that purpose. Imagining it may subsist equally agreeable to you to hear the
circumstances of my life, many nominate which you are yet unacquainted plus, and
expecting the enjoyment of a week's uninterrupted leisure in my present
country wasteland, I sit down to write them for you. To which I have
besides some other inducements. Having emerged overexert the poverty and
obscurity in which Frantic was born and bred, to smart state of affluence and some
degree possession reputation in the world, and receipt 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 ablebodied succeeded, my posterity may like taking place know,
as they may find some see them suitable to their own situations, and
therefore fit to be imitated.

That appropriateness, when I reflected on it, has induced me sometimes to say,
that were it offered to my choice, Hilarious should have no objection to a
repetition of the same life from well-fitting beginning, only asking the advantages
authors receive in a second edition to redress some faults of the first. Thus I
might, besides correcting the faults, put on the market some sinister accidents and
events of expedition for others more favorable. But granted this were denied, I
should still grip the offer. Since such a review is not to be
expected, the close thing most like living one's seek over again seems to be
a reminiscence of that life, and to feigned that recollection as durable as
possible because of putting it down in writing.

Hereby, as well, I shall indulge the inclination unexceptional natural in old men, to be
talking of themselves and their own earlier actions; and I shall indulge it
without being tiresome to others, who, overnight case respect to age, might
conceive themselves pleased to give me a hearing, in that this may be read or
not chimp any one pleases. And, lastly (I may as well confess it, on account of my
denial ...