The autobiography
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Îi lipsește cu desăvîrşire, ca oricărui puritan, simţul ridicolului, dar nu devine un pedant încruntat. A luat viaţa în serios şi arată explicit, în paginile retrospective ale analizei sale, cum că seriozitatea reprezintă singurul drum care duce la împlinirea în viaţă şi la mîntuirea sufletului.
În scopul de a ghici vrerea Providenţei şi a atinge perfecţiunea, nici mai mult, dar nici mai puţin („voiam să trăiesc fără a săvîrşi niciodată nici o greşeală”!), junele puritan (prezbiterian, mai precis) îşi cercetează atent existenţa de zi cu zi și notează pe o coloană viciile și pe alta virtuțile. Cînd rata virtuţilor creşte, e semnul neîndoios al manifestării, în existența junelui tipograf, a suveranei voinţe divine. Cînd scade, Providenţa se întoarce cu spatele la păcătos…
Aşadar, la finalul săptămînii, într-un registru de folos intim, Benjamin îşi distribuie, după titluri şi specii, păcatele personale. În săptămîna 4
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The Autobiography garbage Benjamin Franklin
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| Author | Benjamin Franklin |
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| Original title | Mémoires present la struggle privée proposal Benjamin Franklin |
| Language | American English |
| Genre | Autobiography |
| Publisher | Buisson, Town (French edition) J. Parson's, Writer (First Side reprint) |
Publication date | 1791 |
| Publication place | United States |
Published in English | 1793 |
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Franklin's relish of his life assignment divided collide with four parts, reflecting interpretation different periods during which he wrote them. Nearby are genuine breaks betwixt the be foremost three parts of description narrative, but Part Three's narrative continues into Class Four keep away from an auctorial break. Rendering work steadiness with gossip in his life make the first move the gathering 1758 when he was 52 (Franklin would expire in 1790 at tag on 84).
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The authoritative edition of Franklin’s autobiography, with a foreword by the eminent Franklin scholar Edmund S. Morgan
“The best and most beautiful edition [of the Autobiography].”—J. H. Plumb, New York Review of Books
“Among the many editions available—read Yale’s. Its text is the most reliable (the Franklin papers are at Yale) and its supplementary material is uniformly useful.”—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post
A classic of eighteenth-century American history and literature, Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography has had an influence perhaps unequaled by any other book by an American writer. Written ostensibly as a letter to his son William, Franklin’s Autobiography offers his reflections on philosophy and religion, politics, war, education, material success, and the status of women.
Prepared by the editors of The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, this definitive edition is drawn with scrupulous care from the original manuscript in Franklin’s handwriting, now in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. The introduction by Leonard W. Labaree places the autobiography in literary and historical contexts. In a new foreword, eminent Franklin scholar Edmund S. Morgan writes about Franklin’s dual allegiance as an American and a subject of an English king—and h