Life of Benjamin Franklin : Volume I

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ISBN: 9780898751307 | 0898751306
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Copyright: 12/1/2000

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"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing". Benjamin Franklin.

Preface	p. 5
Historical Sketch of the Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Autograph MS. of Franklin's Memoirs of his Own Life	p. 19

Franklin's Outline of the Topics of his Autobiography	p. 77
Autobiography of Franklin from his Birth to his Arrival in England as Agent of the Colony of Pennsylvania (1706-1757)	p. 81
Continuation of the Autobiography from Franklin's Arrival in England as Agent of the Colony of Pennsylvania, in June, 1757, until the Close of his Mission there and Return to Philadelphia, in 1775

Domestication and Protracted Illness in London
Removal of Governor Denny
Countermining the Proprietors
Historical Review, etc., of Pennsylvania
Tour through England and Scotland
Cambridge University
Visits the Home of his Ancestors
Counsels the Annexation of Canada to the British Empire
Portrait of William Penn
The "Art of Virtue"
Kames's "Elements of Criticism"
Directions for a Young Lady's Reading
Expensiveness of English Wives
Hume's "Jealousy of Commerce"
Baskerville's Printing-Types
Property of the Penn Family
Death of his Mother-in-law
Lightning Conductors (1757-1762)

His Reception in America
His Son's Marriage, and Appointment as Governor of New Jersey
Tour through the Colonies as Postmaster-General
Insurrection of the Indians
Drafts a Militia Bill
Its Rejection by the Governor
Drafts a Petition to the Throne for a Change of Governor
Is defeated for the Assembly
Sent to England again as Agent of the Colony of Pennsylvania
Parting Advice to his Daughter (1762-1764)
Connecticut Religion

Jealousy of English Manufacturers
Origin of the Stamp Act
Opposition of Franklin
Effect of its Passage in America
Names a Stamp Distributor
Unpleasant Consequences
Correspondence with Dean Tucker (1764-1766)

Franklin's Examination before the House of Commons (1766)	p. 467

Franklin sends his Wife a New Dress on the Repeal of the Stamp Act
New Disputes with the Mother Country
Colonies required to provide for Soldiers
Lord Chatham
Marriage of Sally Franklin
Experiment of making Paper Money not a Legal Tender
Advances of the French Ambassador to Franklin
Visits the Continent
First Impressions of France and Germany (1766-1767)

The Walpole Grant again
Change of Ministry
Hillsborough named Secretary of State for America
Franklin edits "The Farmers Letters"
Particulars of his Election to the Royal Society
Powers of Parliament over the Colonies defined
Corruption at Elections
Dissolution of Parliament (1767-1768)
Appendix
Preface to Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin	p. 573
Preface to "Correspondance inedite, etc., de B. Franklin,"	p. 577
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