Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Benjamin Franklin” in chapter 5 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition.:
...me modesty.
He is certainly an extraordinary man,—of a singularly good judgment, but of equal modesty,—excellent, yet humble.
Do not imagine, he adds, that I overdo in my character of Benjamin Franklin , for I am rather short in it.
When the scientific world began to investigate the wonders of electricity, Franklin excelled all observers in the marvellous simplicity and lucid exposition of his exp...
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