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Sydney George Fisher. The True Benjamin Franklin
The True Benjamin Franklin
Table of Contents
Preface
List of Illustrations with Notes
The True. Benjamin Franklin
I. PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Footnote
II. EDUCATION
Footnote
III. RELIGION AND MORALS
Footnote
IV. BUSINESS AND LITERATURE
Footnote
V. SCIENCE
Footnote
VI. THE PENNSYLVANIA POLITICIAN
Footnote
VII. DIFFICULTIES AND FAILURE IN ENGLAND
Footnote
VIII. AT HOME AGAIN
IX. THE EMBASSY TO FRANCE AND ITS SCANDALS
X. PLEASURES AND DIPLOMACY IN FRANCE
Footnote
XI. THE CONSTITUTION-MAKER
Footnote
Appendix to Page 104. FRANKLIN’S DAUGHTER, MRS. FOXCROFT
Index
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Sydney George Fisher
Published by Good Press, 2021
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He did not remain an entire convert to the vegetarians, but he often practised their methods and apparently found no inconvenience in it. He could eat almost anything, and change from one diet to another without difficulty. Two years after his first experiment with vegetarianism he ran away from his brother at Boston, and found work at Philadelphia with a rough, ignorant old printer named Keimer, who wanted, among other projects, to form a religious sect, and to have Franklin help him. Franklin played with his ideas for a while, and finally said that he would agree to wear a long beard and observe Saturday instead of Sunday, like Keimer, if Keimer would join him in a vegetable diet.
He found a woman in the neighborhood to cook for them, and taught her how to prepare forty kinds of vegetable food, which reduced their cost of living to eighteen pence a week for each. But Keimer, who was a heavy meat-eater, could stand it only three months, and then ordered a roast-pig dinner, to be enjoyed by the two vegetarians and a couple of women. Keimer, however, arrived first at the feast, and before any of his guests appeared had eaten the whole pig.
