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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 14 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 6: Franklin (search)
Born in Boston on 6 January, 1706, he inherited from his long-lived parents, Josiah and Abiah Folger Franklin, a rugged physical and mental constitution which hardly faltered through the hard usage er his natural bent by taking him about to see various artisans at their work. Everything that Franklin touched taught him something; and everything that he learned, he used. Though his tour of the ort Royal Art of thinking, Xenophon's Memorabilia, and the works of Shaftesbury and Collins. Franklin found the right avenue for a person of his bookish inclination when his brother James, returninork fell short in elegance of expression, in method, and in perspicuity. About this time, says Franklin in a familiar paragraph, I met with an odd volume of the Spectator. Anticipating Dr. Johnson'ch several generations of English essayists have sought to attain. All the world has heard how Franklin's career as a writer began with an anonymous contribution stealthily slipped under the door of
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index. (search)
Post, the, 261, 279 Everett, Alexander, 249 Everett, David, 236 Everett, Edward, 208, 249, 332 Exact epitome of the four Monarchies, 154 Examination into the leading principles of the Federal Constitution, an, 148 Examination of Franklin, 139 Examination of the Constitution, an, 148 Excursion, the, 213 Exercise . . . to the memory of . . .George II, an, 216 Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, 2 12 Experiencia, 22 Experiments and observations in electricity, etc., 96 85 Fothergill, Dr., John, 195 Four elements, constitutions, ages of man, and seasons of the year, 154 Fourier, 339, 340 Fox, George, 8 Foxe, North-West, 2 Francesca da Rimini, 223, 224, 225, 232 Francis, Convers, 333 Franklin, Abiah Folger, 92 Franklin, Benjamin, 57, 81, 85, 90-110, 112, I13,114, 115, I16, 17, 21, 122, 134, 139, 140, 140 n., 141, 142, 144, 146, 151, 161, 177, 195, 198, 199, 225, 233, 284, 301 Franklin, James, 55, 93, 94, I12 Franklin, Josiah, 92