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Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chronology; Bibliographical note; Biographical guide; A note on the texts;
1. The autobiography -
Part One,
Part Two,
Part Three,
Part Four;
2. Plan of conduct (1726);
3. The nature and necessity of a paper currency (1729);
4. Apology for printers (1731);
5. Rules for a club formerly established at Philadelphia (1732);
6. Dialogue between two Presbyterians (1735);
7. Letter to Josiah and Abiah Franklin (1738);
8. Proposal for promoting useful knowledge (1743);
9. Speech of Miss Polly Baker (1747);
10. Plain truth (1747);
11. Form of the association and remarks (1747);
12. Advice to a young tradesman, written by an old one (1748);
13. Proposals relating to the education of youth in Pennsylvania;
14. Observations concerning the increase of mankind (1751);
15. Letter to James Parker (1751);
16. Rattlesnakes for Felons (1751);
17. Letter to Peter Collinson (1753);
18. Letter to Peter Collinson (1753);
19. Join or die (1754);
20. Reasons and motives for the Albany Plan of Union (1754);
21. Letters to Governor Shirley (1754) with a preface of 1766;
22. Preface to poor Richard improved (1757);
23. Letter to ________ (1757);
24. Letter to Lord Kames (1760);
25. On the price of corn, and the management of the poor (1766);
26. Letter to Lord Kames (1767);
27. Causes of the American discontents before 1768 (1768);
28. The Somersett case and the slave trade (1772);
29. Rules by which a Great Empire may be reduced to a small one (1773);
30. An edict by the King of Prussia (1773);
31. On a proposed act to prevent immigration (1773);
32. Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union (1775);
33. Morals of Chess (1779);
34. The Whistle (1779);
35. Letter to Joseph Priestley (1780);
36. Letter to Joseph Priestley (1782);
37. Letter to Richard Price (1782);
38. Letter to Robert Morris (1783);
39. Remarks concerning the savages of North America (1784);
40. Letter to Sarah Franklin Bache (1784);
41. Information to those who would remove to America (1784);
42. Letter to Benjamin Vaughan (1784);
43. At the Constitutional Convention (1787);
44. Queries and remarks (1789);
45. On the Slave Trade (1790); Index.
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reviewed Benjamin Franklin: The Autobioghraphy and other Writings on Politics, Economics, and Virtue (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) on March 08, 2011 Benjamin Franklin: The Autobioghraphy and other Writings on Politics, Economics, and Virtue (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
This book, though obviously an unfinished work from Franklin's life, is a gem. Is so open, so unassuming, as to make one forget that we are being tutored by one of the greatest diplomats of all time. It feels like reading a neighbor's personal blog. It is full of words to live by. Such as:
"the wisest man will receive lights and improve his progress, by seeing detailed the conduct of another wise man."
(Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography, 59-60)
"I made it a Rule to forbear all direct Contradiction to the Sentiments of others, and all positive Assertion of my own. I even forbid myself, agreeable to the old Laws of our Junto, the Use of every Word or Expression in the Language that imported a fix'd Opinion; such as certainly, undoubtedly, etc. and I adopted instead of them, I conceive, I apprehend, or I imagine a thing to be so or so, or it appears to me at present. When another asserted something that I thought an Error, I denied myself the Pleasure of contradicting him abruptly, and of showing immediately some Absurdity in his Proposition; and in answering I began by observing that in certain Cases or Circumstances his Opinion would be right, but that in the present case there *appear'd or seem'd* to me some Difference, etc. I soon found the Advantage of this Change in my Manners. The Conversations I engag'd in went on more pleasantly. The modest way in which I propos'd my Opinions, procur'd them a readier Reception and less Contradition; I had less Mortification when I was found to be in the wrong, and I more easily prevail'd with others to give up their Mistakes and join with me when I happene'd to be in the right. And this Mode, which I at first put on, with some violence to natural Inclination, became at length . . . easy and . . . habitual to me."
(Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography, 75)
"I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an Office."
(Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography, 94)
"When Men are employ'd they are best contented."
(Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography, 126)
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