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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with Introduction and Notes Edited

By: Charles W. Eliot

...r an or any pur y pur y pur y pur y purpose pose pose pose pose, , , , , and in an and in an and in an and in an and in any w y w y w y w y wa a a a a... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with introduction and ... ..., and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the “New England Courant.” To this journal he became a contribu... ...former trade, and shortly set up a print ing house of his own from which he published “The Pennsyl vania Gazette,” to which he contributed many essa... ...er I suppose with a degree of good will toward me; therefore, when she saw a daily growing familiarity between me and the two young women, which they ... ...orking with Keimer, fretting about the money Collins had got from me, and in daily apprehensions of being call’d upon by Vernon, which, however, did n... ...written some pieces in prose and verse, which were printed in the Gloucester newspapers; thence he was sent to Oxford; where he continued about a year... ...ter impression. The piece, being universally approved, was copied in all the newspapers of the Continent; reprinted in Britain on a broad side, to be ... ...son, who had in the preceding war been an officer in the army rais’d against Canada, was my aid de camp, and of great use to me. The Indians had burn...

...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 ten, and at twelve he was b...

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