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Thus, Franklin’s philosophy not only defined the American ideal but also defined the entire concept of human progress. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. First published: Part 1, 1791; complete ...
From 1732 to 1758, Benjamin Franklin printed Poor Richard's Almanack. This publication contained a yearly calendar, weather and seasonal predictions, poems, witty sayings, and proverbs. About 10,000 were published each year, and it was popular reading throughout the 13 Colonies. In the last edition, published in 1758, Franklin wrote an lengthy ...
Jan 1, 2002 · Poor Richard, 1733. An Almanack For the Year of Christ 1733, …. By Richard Saunders, Philom. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by B. Franklin, at the New Printing-Office near the Market. (Reprinted from the copy of the first impression in the Rosenbach Foundation. A copy of the third impression is in Historical Society of Pennsylvania.) A ...
Benjamin Franklin. 1706–1790. This is a comprehensive list of primary and secondary works by or about Benjamin Franklin, one of the principal Founding Fathers of the United States. Works about Franklin have been consistently published during and after Franklin's life, spanning four centuries, and continue to appear in present-day publications.
Poor Richard's Almanack. By Benjamin Franklin. More nice than wise. XI Mon. January [1733] hath xxxi days. Old Batchelor would have a Wife that’s wise, Fair, rich, and young, a Maiden for his Bed; Not proud, nor churlish, but of faultless size; A Country Houswife in the City bred. He’s a nice Fool, and long in vain hath staid;
One such source of medieval Jewish history that may be employed for the purposes of understanding Africa is the Itinerary of Benjamin ben Jonah, a twelfth-century travel-guide that devotes some space to North- East Africa south of Muslim Egypt. Benjamin was a merchant of Tudela in Spanish Navarre.
The word is then borrowed by Benjamin in his 1935 essay “Paris: Capital of the Nineteenth Century,” which is one of the very few instances that the philosopher mentioned, in passing, Richard Wagner. Benjamin’s use of the word became a source of friction between himself and Adorno, who wrote to him a letter asking him to reconsider his ...
