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CONTENTS
I. Ancestry and Early Life in Boston II. Beginning Life as a Printer III. Arrival in Philadelphia IV. First Visit to Boston V. Early Friends in Philadelphia VI. First Visit to London VII. Beginning Business in Philadelphia VIII. Business Success and First Public Service IX. Plan for Attaining Moral Perfection X. _Poor Richard's Almanac_ and Other Activities XI. Interest in Public Affairs XII. Defense of the Province XIII. Public Services and Duties XIV. Albany Plan of Union XV. Quarrels with the Proprietary Governors XVI. Braddock's Expedition XVII. Franklin's Defense of the Frontier XVIII. Scientific Experiments XIX. Agent of Pennsylvania in London Appendix Electrical Kite The Way to Wealth The Whistle A Letter to Samuel Mather Bibliography |
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ANCESTRY AND EARLY YOUTH IN BOSTON Twyford,[3] _at the Bishop of St. Asaph's_, 1771. Dear son: I have ever had pleasure in obtaining any little anecdotes of my ancestors. You may remember the inquiries I made among the remains of my relations when you were with me in England, and the journey I undertook for that purpose. Imagining it may be equally agreeable to you to know the circumstances of my life, many of which you are yet unacquainted with, and expecting the enjoyment of a week's uninterrupted leisure in my present country retirement, I sit down to write them for you. To which I have besides some other inducements. Having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred, to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world, and having gone so far through life with a considerable share of felicity, the conducing means I made use of, which with the blessing of God so well succeeded, my posterity may like to know, as they may find some of them suitable to their own situations, and therefore fit to be imitated. 본문 중에서 |