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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

History
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The Thesis

“Having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred, to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world, and having gone so far through life with a considerable share of felicity, the conducing means I made use of, which with the blessing of God so well succeeded, my posterity may like to know, as they may find some of them suitable to their own situations, and therefore fit to be imitated.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Contents

  1. 1THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN34 w
  2. 2INTRODUCTORY NOTE27,264 w
  3. 3Letter from Mr. Abel James,38,056 w
  4. 4CHIEF EVENTS IN FRANKLIN’S LIFE.843 w
  5. 5On Franklin’s Autobiography375 w
  6. 6Transcriber’s Notes3 w

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin edited by Charles Eliot — Benjamin Franklin

Source edition: P.F. Collier & Son, New York (Harvard Classics), 1909

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