The Life of Benjamin Franklin
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin is by M. L. Weems and offers many choice anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man. The text describes a man who, for his slender means, was of extraordinary hospitality, which caused his friends to wonder how he made out to entertain so many. The text says that for this manly kind of education at his table, Dr. Franklin always spoke as under great obligations to his father's judgment and taste.
A passage says that eighteen months had been spent there but had not been misspent, and that the largest printing-houses in London were left in mourning for his departure. The text asks what it was but this amiable oneness of heart with his fellow men, this sweet Christian sensibility to their interests and consequent generous delight in doing them good, that filled his life with such noble charities.
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- Author
- M. L. Weems
- Pages
- 208
- Language
- English
- Genre
- American History
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