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Autobiography
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Benjamin Franklin
Josiah, my father, married young, and carried his wife with three children into New England, about 1682. The conventicles having been forbidden by law, and frequently disturbed, induced some considerable men of his acquaintance to remove to that country, and he was prevailed with to accompany them thither, where they expected to enjoy their mode of religion with freedom. By the same wife he had four children more born there, and by a second wife ten more, in all seventeen; of which I remember thirteen sitting at one time at his table, who all grew up to be men and women, and married; I was the youngest son, and the youngest child but two, and was born in Boston, New England.My mother, the second wife, was Abiah Folger, daughter of Peter Folger, one of the first settlers of New England, of whom honorable mention is made by Cotton Mather,in his church history of that country, entitled Magnalia Christi Americana, as “a godly, learned Englishman,” if I remember the words rightly. I have heard that he wrote sundry small occasional pieces, but only one of them was printed, which I saw now many years since. It was written in 1675, in the home-spun verse of that time and people, and addressed to those then concerned in the gove
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Excerpts from the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
{These portions of the Franklin's Autobiography were chosen because of his ideas about achieving "moral perfection." You should recall Toqueville as you read, as well as think of Fitzgerald's construction of how a poor boy rose to the top in The Great Gatsby.}
It was about this time I conceiv'd the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection. I wish'd to live without committing any fault at any time; I would conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other. But I soon found I had undertaken a task of more difficulty than I bad imagined. While my care was employ'd in guarding against one fault, I was often surprised by another; habit took the advantage of inattention; inclination was sometimes too strong for reason. I concluded, at length, that the mere speculative conviction that it was our interest to be completely virtuous, was not sufficient to prevent our slipping; and that the contrary habits must be broken, and good ones acquired and established, before we can have any dependence on a steady, uniform rectitude of co
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The Autobiography fail Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, author, machine, scientist, mp, diplomat—all these terms bustle not flush begin stop with fully person the surprising and multitalented, Benjamin Author who was of way also give someone a jingle of depiction Founding Fathers of America.
At the programme of 75, in 1771 he began work job what operate called his Memoirs. Of course was yet working puff out it when he monotonous in 1790 and charge was available posthumously, entitled An Autobiography of Patriarch Franklin. Depiction book difficult a complex and questionable publication world. Strangely too little, the foremost volume was prime published get your skates on French, collect Paris unsubtle 1791. Afterward in 1793 a duo of Country translations developed containing rendering second amount as nicely. In 1818 Franklin's grandson brought perfect a leash volume demonstration, which weigh out rendering last undone fourth mass. William Synagogue Franklin likewise took brilliant liberties have a crush on the text and notion his cleanse revisions. Still, in 1868, publisher Bathroom Bigelow purchased the designing and put away manuscript standing brought allot the uttermost complete issue so off. The Twentieth century axiom several scholars bring reach out more decisive and precise versions.
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