tailieunhanh - The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

We Americans devour eagerly any piece of writing that purports to tell us the secret of success in life; yet how often we are disappointed to find nothing but commonplace statements, or receipts that we know by heart but never follow. Most of the life stories of our famous and successful men fail to inspire because they lack the human element that makes the record real and brings the story within our grasp. While we are searching far and near for some Aladdin's Lamp to give coveted fortune, there is ready at our hand if we will only reach out and take it, like the. | Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin 1 Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin Project Gutenberg s Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Author Benjamin Franklin Editor Frank Woodworth Pine Illustrator E. Boyd Smith Release Date December 28 2006 EBook 20203 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin 2 Produced by Turgut Dincer Brian Sogard and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http Illustration FRANKLIN ARMS Illustration FRANKLIN SEAL Illustration Franklin at the Court of Louis XVI He was therefore feasted and invited to all the court parties. At these he sometimes met the old Duchess of Bourbon who being a chess player of about his force they very generally played together. Happening once to put her king into prize the Doctor took it. Ah says she we do not take kings so. We do in America said the Doctor. --Thomas Jefferson. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN WITH ILLUSTRATIONS by E. BOYD SMITH EDITED by FRANK WOODWORTH PINE Illustration Printers Mark New York HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1916 Copyright 1916 BY HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY June 1922 THE QUINN BODEN CO. PRESS RAHWAY N. J. CONTENTS Introduction vii The Autobiography I. Ancestry and Early Life in Boston 3 II. Beginning Life as a Printer 21 III. Arrival in Philadelphia 41 IV. First Visit to Boston 55 Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin 3 V. Early Friends in Philadelphia 69 VI. First Visit to London 77 VII. Beginning Business in Philadelphia 99 VIII. Business Success and First Public Service 126 IX. Plan for Attaining Moral Perfection 146 X. Poor Richard s Almanac and .