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...Introduction: Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ...

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...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot ... ...a State University is an equal opportunity University. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES EDITED BY CHARLES W. ELIOT,... ...LIOT, L.L.D., P. F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, NEW YORK (1909) INTRODUCTORY NOTE Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on Janu ary 6, 1706. ... ...and later was for a time its nominal editor. But the brothers quarreled, and Benjamin ran away, going first to New York, and thence to Philadel phia,... ...University of Pennsylvania; and he founded an “American The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 3 Philosophical Society” for the purpose of enabling s... ...that of Washington as the champion of American indepen The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 4 dence. He died on April 17, 1790. The first five cha... ...d of its acknowledged rank as one of the great autobiographies of the world. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1706 1757 TWYFORD, at the Bishop of S... ...s “some of” were inter lined and afterward effaced.—B. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 5 second edition to correct some faults of the first. ... ... (perhaps from the time when the name of Franklin, that The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 6 before was the name of an order of people, was assum...

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...ay be harsh and stern with Judah and Simeon—our love and pity gush out for Benjamin, the little one. And if you are old, as some reader of this may be...

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...the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Gorgias by Plato, trans. Benjamin Jowett, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics S... ...al opportunity university. 3 Plato s Gorgias Gorgias by Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION. IN SEVERAL OF THE DIALOGUES of Plato, doubt... ... life are not overlooked. 59 Plato s Gorgias GORGIAS by Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Callicles, Socrates, Chaerephon,...

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... (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin. 19 And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which i... ..., and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun: 24 The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin: 25 And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s hand- maid; Dan, and Naphtali... ...not die. 3 And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt. 4 But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, ... ...ereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me. 37 And Reuben spake unto hi... ... you mercy be- fore the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved. 15 And the men to... ...nd the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph. 16 ... ...p, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph. 16 And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house, Bring these men home... ...ads, and made obeisance. 29 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother’s son, and said, Is this your younger brother, of whom... ... at another. 34 And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin’s mess was ve times so much as any of their’s. And they drank, an...

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...ures for airing and sweetening their houses, and burned perfumes, incense, benjamin, rozin, and sulphur in their rooms close shut up, and then let the...

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...quity, and has counted among its members Scott, Brougham, Jeffrey, Horner, Benjamin Constant, Robert Emmet, and many a legal and local celebrity besid...

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...del GENEVA PAVILION Acknowledgements  Daniel E. Weber  Benjamin Grosser  Imaging Technology Group  Professor Joy Malnar  Pr...

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...ooking into Chapman’s Homer Keen, Fitful Gusts Are Whisp’ring Here and There On Leaving Some Friends at an Early Hour To My Brothers Addressed to Benjamin Robert Haydon To G(eorgina) A(ugusta) W(ylie) To Kosciusko Sleep and Poetry I Stood Tip-Toe upon a Little Hill Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition On the Grasshopper and Cricket After Dark Vapours Have O...

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... yourself a present of five cents worth of postage- stamps into the bargain. Benjamin Franklin would have pat- ted me on the head for this discovery. ...

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...Art are extremely serious. Believe me your sincere friend and well-wisher, Benjamin Babcock P. S. I am greatly perplexed by Luini. This letter produce...

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...ranslated from Russian by Stephen A. Fulling and Ludmila G. Popova, W. A. Benjamin, Inc., Reading, Massachusetts, 1975. [9] Bouvier, Alain, George, ... ...ge W., Mathematical Foundations of Mechanics / A Lecture-Note Volume, The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts, 1980. [95] M...

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...at followed were much the same; private collections for the wealthy and intellectual elite. The first truly public, lending library was founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1731. This library allowed anyone to borrow, member or not, but required that non-members put down collateral in the event they decided not to return their book. Today, what makes the library so d...

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...wake sometimes, and having some interest in the subject—put me in mind of Benjamin Franklin , and so Benjamin Franklin’s paper on the art of procurin... ...me of it. Except Niagara. The two quotations from W ashington Irv ing and Benjamin Franklin may have put it in my head by an American association of ...

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...two famous Americans, Thomas Jefferson for his belief in print power, and Benjamin Franklin for his printer pride. As president, Jefferson cited ... ... the 1892 vice-presidential nomination on the Republican ticket headed by Benjamin Harrison. To hold out longer would have jeopardized GOP chances t... ...n opening libraries during the sixteenth-century reign of Henry VIII, and Benjamin Franklin founded America‘s first circulating library in 1731. ... ... The Seeds of Cyberspace Back in the middle of the eighteenth century, Benjamin Franklin pointed the way to the Age of Cyberspace. Whether or not...

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...ld bottles! So, on the label, just over the date, was written large: UNCLE BENJAMIN’S WEDDING PRESENT TO HIS NIECE BESSY. Poor Bessy shed tears of dis... ...meals where they could, on the walls, like flies. But there was also Uncle Benjamin’s legacy on view, in the distance, so it was ruled against her tha... ...r beast’s appearance of a strange dog that worried the flock. Even Captain Benjamin, as you have seen, was unable to withstand the demand on him. The ...

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...hun- dred and fortyone—let us hasten to the ramparts adjoining the gate of Benjamin, which is in the city of David, and overlook- ing the camp of the ... ...undred and twenty cubits- in height. But, in the vicin- ity of the gate of Benjamin, the wall arose by no means from the margin of the fosse. On the c...