Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484364652
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (646 download)
Book Synopsis Works of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 1 of 2 by : Benjamin Franklin
Download or read book Works of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 1 of 2 written by Benjamin Franklin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Works of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 1 of 2: Consisting of His Life, Written by Himself, Together With Essays, Humourous, Moral and Literary I AM hardly able to tell you how kindly I take the letters with which you favour me. Your lalt, containing an account of the death of our excellent friend Dr. Frank lin, and the circumftances attending it, deferves my par ticular gratitude. The account which he has left of his life will fhow, in a firiking example, how a man, by ta lents, indufiry, and integrity, may rife from obfcurity to the firfi eminence and confequence in the world but it brings his hifiory no lower than the year 17 57, and I un (lerltand that fince he fent over the copy, which I have read, he has been able to make no additions to it. It is with a melancholy re ret I think of his death but to death we are all bound y the irreverfible order of nature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.