Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin ] by James Parton

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  • Author : James Parton
  • Release Date : 2010-03
  • Publisher : General Books
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  • Pages : 446
  • ISBN 13 : 9781150971174
  • File Size : 12,12 MB
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Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin ] by James Parton by James Parton PDF Summary

Book Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867. Excerpt: ... another party so much disgust, long remain concealed from those who would make it their business to discover it. We cannot doubt, that the subsequent course of the government toward Dr. Franklin was influenced, in some degree, by the natural abhorrence which tory courtiers entertained for a person capable of writing such sprightly and damaging satire. Solemn and ponderous replies to these effusions appeared, one of which was writtten by Governor Bernard; but they seem to have attracted little notice. This battle, indeed, was not to be fought out on paper. If it had been, Franklin and Franklin's cause would have won the day before the year 1783. CHAPTER VI. PRIVATE LIFE AND STUDIES. "feankxin, Benjamin, Esq., agent for Philadelphia, Craven Street, Strand." Such is the account of our philosopher given in the thin London Directory for 1770; an entry which shows that the compiler considered him a person of some consequence, but had only a vague notion from what that consequence was derived. In Craven Street, at the house of Mrs. Stevenson, he continued to live during the whole period of his residence in London, and enjoyed there a tranquil satisfaction which could only have been surpassed at his own Philadelphia home. "It is to all our honors," he once wrote to the daughter of Mrs. Stevenson, "that in all that time we never had among us the smallest misunderstanding; our friendship has been all clear sunshine, without the least cloud in its hemisphere." With him lived William Temple Franklin, his son's son, a promising boy, who, it appears, had never seen his father since he had been old enough to know the meaning of the word. He grew up under the eye and training of his grandfather, to whom he proved a help and solace when he stood in need of both. At this t...

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