Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom
Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher : Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 41,30 MB
Release : 1998-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781441300591
Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher : Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 41,30 MB
Release : 1998-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781441300591
Author : Ralph Frasca
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 33,59 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0826264921
"Explores Benjamin Franklin's network of partnerships and business relationships with printers. His network altered practices in both European and American colonial printing trades by providing capital and political influence to set up working partnerships with James Parker, Francis Childs, Benjamin Mecom, Benjamin Franklin Bache, David Hall, Anthony Armbruster, and others"--Provided by publisher.
Author : James N. Green
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 38,50 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
"Benjamin Franklin, Writer and Printer begins by focusing on Franklin's career as a printer, from his apprenticeship to his retirement in 1748, by which time he had created the largest printing business in colonial America. His success as a printer was based not only on the newspaper and the popular almanacs be published, but also on job printing of various kinds, ranging from folio volumes of laws to paper money and blank forms." "Much of what we know about Franklin as writer and printer comes from his autobiography, the focus of the last part of this book. Left unfinished at his death in 1790, the autobiography was known to the world for nearly eighty years only in translations, fragments, paraphrases, and, in English, from retranslations of a 1791 French translation."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 43,10 MB
Release : 2006-01-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1440626928
It takes a very inclusive anthology to encompass the protean personality and range of interests of Benjamin Franklin, but The Portable Benjamin Franklin succeeds as no collection has. In addition to the complete Autobiography, the volume contains about 100 of Franklin’s major writings—essays, journalism, letters, political tracts, scientific observations, proposals for the improvement of civic and personal life, literary bagatelles, and private musings. The selections are reprinted in their entirety and organized chronologically within six sections that represent the full range of Franklin’s temperament. The result is a zestful read for Franklin scholars and anyone wanting to know and enjoy this American icon. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Pierre-André Gargaz
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 18,4 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Peace
ISBN :
Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher :
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 22,25 MB
Release : 1840
Category : United States
ISBN :
Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 15,47 MB
Release : 1888
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Robert Ellis Smith
Publisher : Privacy Journal
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 43,91 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Law
ISBN : 0930072146
Explore the hidden niches of American history to discover the tug between our yearning for privacy and our insatiable curiosity. Book jacket.
Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher : Frog Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 30,88 MB
Release : 2003-03-31
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781583940792
Meet Benjamin Franklin as you’ve never met him before . . . This hilarious collection includes the Founding Father’s satirical writings on farting, adultery, and other irreverent subjects you won’t find in your history books. A mention of flatulence might conjure up images of bratty high school boys or lowbrow comics. But one of the most eloquent—and least expected—commentators on the subject is Benjamin Franklin. The writings in Fart Proudly reveal the rogue who lived peaceably within the philosopher and statesman. Included are “The Letter to a Royal Academy”; “On Choosing a Mistress”; “Rules on Making Oneself Disagreeable”; and other jibes. Franklin’s irrepressible wit found an outlet in perpetrating hoaxes, attacking marriage and other sacred cows, and skewering the English Parliament. Reminding us of the humorous, irreverent side of this American icon, these essays endure as both hilarious satire and a timely reminder of the importance of a free press.
Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 29,63 MB
Release : 1778
Category : Old age
ISBN :