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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)
d his mind opened to free speculation and equipped for logical reasoning by Locke's Essay concerning human understanding, the Port 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, returning from England in 1717 with a press and letters, set up in Boston as a printer, and proceeded to the publication of The Boston gazette, 1719, and The New England Courant, 1721. Benjamin, aged twelve, became his apprentice. It can hardly be too much emphasized that this was really an inspiring job. It made him stand at a very early age full in the wind of local political and theological controversy. It forced him to use all his childish stock of learning and daily stimulated him to new acquisitions. It put him in touch with other persons, young and old, of bookish inclination. They lent him books which kindled his poetic fancy to the pitch of composing occasio
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)
the hands of an angry God, 60 Sir Charles Grandison, 284 Sketch Book, 240, 248, 249, 251, 255-256 Sketches from a student's Window, 240 Sketches of history, 318 Skinner, Otis, 223 Sky-walk, 288, 291 Slaves in Algiers, 226 Slender's journey, 182 Smith, Adam, 91, 97 Smith, Elihu Hubbard, 288, 290 Smith, Horace, 281 Smith, James, 281 Smith, Capt., John, 2, 15-18, 19, 225 Smith, Melanchthon, 148 Smith, Samuel, 27 Smith, Sydney, 206, 207, 208 Smith, Rev. William (1721-1803), 85, 122, 123, 216 Smith, William (1728-1793), 27, 28 Smith, William Moore, 177 Smyth, Professor A. H., 94, 94 n., 97 n., 139 n. Smyth, J. P. D., 206 Smollett, 285, 287, 297, 307 Socrates, 103, 351 Some considerations on the keeping of Negroes, 88, 88 n., 89 n. Song of Braddock's men, the, 166 Song of the Bell, 270 Song of the Sower, the, 270 Sonneck, O. G., 216 n. Sonnets (Milton), 274 South Carolina gazette, the, 116 n., 117 Southampton, Earl