A Benjamin Franklin ReaderSimon and Schuster, 2005年6月15日 - 576 頁 A selection of Benjamin Franklin’s writings, with an introduction and commentary by renowned author Walter Isaacson. Selected and annotated by the author of the acclaimed Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, this collection of Franklin’s writings shows why he was the bestselling author of his day and remains America’s favorite founder and wit. Includes an introductory essay exploring Franklin’s life and impact as a writer, and each piece is accompanied by a preface and notes that provide background, context, and analysis. |
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第 1 到 5 筆結果,共 70 筆
第 xi 頁
... Pleasure and Pain.” Returns to Philadelphia. Opens his own print shop. Writes Busy-Body essays. Buys Pennsylvania Gazette. Enters common-law marriage with Deborah Read. William born. Founds library. Francis born. Launches Poor Richard's ...
... Pleasure and Pain.” Returns to Philadelphia. Opens his own print shop. Writes Busy-Body essays. Buys Pennsylvania Gazette. Enters common-law marriage with Deborah Read. William born. Founds library. Francis born. Launches Poor Richard's ...
第 xiii 頁
... pleasure of hearing his hoax “An Edict from the King of Prussia” fool people. ABIAH FOLGER FRANKLIN (1667–1752), Born on Nantucket, she married Josiah Franklin in 1689 and had ten children, including Benjamin. DEBORAH READ FRANKLIN ...
... pleasure of hearing his hoax “An Edict from the King of Prussia” fool people. ABIAH FOLGER FRANKLIN (1667–1752), Born on Nantucket, she married Josiah Franklin in 1689 and had ten children, including Benjamin. DEBORAH READ FRANKLIN ...
第 1 頁
... pleasure,” he recalled, “of fancying that in certain particulars of small import I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think that I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English ...
... pleasure,” he recalled, “of fancying that in certain particulars of small import I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think that I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English ...
第 9 頁
... pleasure” of listening as they decided to feature it on the front page of the next issue. Silence Dogood was a slightly prudish widowed woman from a rural area, created by a spunky unmarried Boston teenager who had never spent a night ...
... pleasure” of listening as they decided to feature it on the front page of the next issue. Silence Dogood was a slightly prudish widowed woman from a rural area, created by a spunky unmarried Boston teenager who had never spent a night ...
第 11 頁
... pleasure, having no affliction but what was imaginary, and created in my own fancy; as nothing is more common with us women, than to be grieving for nothing, when we have nothing else to grieve for. As I would not engross too much of ...
... pleasure, having no affliction but what was imaginary, and created in my own fancy; as nothing is more common with us women, than to be grieving for nothing, when we have nothing else to grieve for. As I would not engross too much of ...
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The Philadelphia Printer | 43 |
Poor Richard and Friends | 91 |
The Public Citizen | 131 |
Lobbyist in London | 185 |
American Rebel | 257 |
Ambassador in Paris | 267 |
Constitutional Sage | 355 |
The Autobiography | 395 |
About the Author | 553 |
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