Goodrich Samuel Griswold. The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Illustrated by Tales, Sketches, and Anecdotes
PREFACE
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
ESSAYS OF DR. FRANKLIN
THE WHISTLE
HANDSOME AND DEFORMED LEG
ADVICE TO A YOUNG TRADESMAN
NECESSARY HINTS TO THOSE THAT WOULD BE RICH
PAPER
ON THE ART OF SWIMMING
PRELIMINARY ADDRESS TO THE PENNSYLVANIA ALMANAC, ENTITLED, "POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC, FOR THE YEAR 1758."
OBSERVATIONS ON WAR
THE WAY TO MAKE MONEY PLENTY IN EVERY MAN'S POCKET
MORALS OF CHESS
CONVERSATION OF A COMPANY OF EPHEMERÆ;
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1. Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston, New England, on the seventeenth of January, 1706. He was the youngest son in a family of seventeen children. His elder brothers were, at an early age, put apprentices to different trades; for their father was a man of honest industry, but with little or no property, and unable to support the expense of keeping them long at school.
2. Benjamin, however, was intended for the church, and at eight years of age was put to a grammar school. His readiness in learning, and his attention to study, confirmed the first intention of his parents. The plan also met with the approbation of his uncle Benjamin, who promised to give him some volumes of sermons that he had taken down in short hand, from the lips of the most eminent preachers of the day.
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2. For what profession did his parents intend to educate him?
3. What induced his father to change his intention?
