Franklin's Autobiography (Eclectic English Classics)
Franklin
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Franklin · 4 chapters
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His boyhood in Boston was a stern beginning of the habit of hard work and rigid economy which marked the man.
He felt the need of school training and set to work to educate himself.
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- INTRODUCTION.Sample
- § 1. PARENTAGE AND BOYHOOD.
- Footnotes
- § 2. SEEKS HIS FORTUNE.
- § 3. FIRST VISIT TO LONDON.
- Footnotes
- § 4. IN PHILADELPHIA AND IN BUSINESS FOR HIMSELF.
- Continuation of the Account of my Life, Begun at Passy, near Paris, 1784.
- Footnotes
- § 5. CONTINUED SELF-EDUCATION.
- Footnotes
- § 6. ENTERS PUBLIC LIFE.
- § 7. PROJECTS FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD.
- Footnotes
- § 8. FRANKLIN ACTS IN CONCERT WITH BRADDOCK'S ARMY. ORGANIZATION OF MILITIA.
- Footnotes
- § 9. THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENTS.
- Footnotes
- § 10. MISSION TO ENGLAND.
- Footnotes
- AS CLEARLY SHOWN IN THE PREFACE OF AN OLD PENNSYLVANIA ALMANAC ENTITLED "POOR RICHARD IMPROVED."
- PROVERBS FROM POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC.
- NOTES AND SUGGESTIONS
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