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| 1706–90, American statesman, printer, scientist, and writer, b. Boston. The only American of the colonial period to earn a European reputation as a natural philosopher, he is best remembered in the United States as a patriot and diplomat.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.) |
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Pronunciation:  fr ngk´l n from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- WORKS
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- Benjamin Franklin, His Autobiography: 1706–1757
The cornerstone of the Harvard Classics and Franklin’s account of his journey of self-education. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. I, Part 1.
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- The Ephemera: An Emblem of Human Life, The Whistle, and Dialogue Between Franklin and the Gout
From the Oxford Book of American Essays, chosen by Brander Matthews.
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- Bartlett’s Franklin Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
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- Franklin, Benjamin, 22976 to 23010
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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- WRITINGS ABOUT FRANKLIN
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- “Franklin”
Chapter by Stuart P. Sherman with bibliography from the Cambridge History of American Literature. See also: Franklin as Political Writer, Journalist, and Economist, and on Education.
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