[PDF] Benjamin Franklin Wit And Wisdom eBook

Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 40,58 MB
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0486110737

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Hundreds of delightful aphorisms, carefully selected from many issues of Franklin's popular 18th-century publication: "He that lies down with Dogs, shall rise up with fleas" and many others.

Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher : Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 24,14 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9781593599393

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Looking for advice that has stood the test of time? Ready for pithy pointers from the original instruction book for life? Selections from Benjamin Franklin's famously beloved Poor Richard's Almanack, illustrated with vintage woodcuts, offer wit and wisdom relevant for today's lifestyle and business world.

Author : Alan Schroeder
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,37 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Alphabet
ISBN : 9780823419500

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Introduces the life and accomplishments, from A to Z, of a Founding Father, from armonicas to bifocals, with adages and cartoons.

Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 31,64 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781566197212

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Charismatic and intelligent, industrious and courageous, bold and innovative, articulate and outspoken, Ben Franklin was a maverick and visionary.

Author : James C. Humes
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 36,80 MB
Release : 1996-03-13
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780060926977

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A brilliant resource to the wise and witty sayings of the "first American", along with numerous entertaining anecdotes about Benjamin Franklin's adventures and misadventures, from his childhood in his brother's Boston printing establishment and his subsequent move to Philadelphia as a youth to his stint as Colonial postmaster general, his work with Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence, and his years as ambassador to the court of Louis XVI in France. This book is for speechmakers, students of history, and lovers of Americana. The Wit & Wisdom of Benjamin Franklin contains quotations organized by subject; lists of his inventions and innovations, such as newspaper editorials, the Franklin stove, bifocals, daylight saving time, and electroshock treatment; and his insights into the personalities of his contemporaries.

Author : John P. Holms
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 28,41 MB
Release : 2015-01-13
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1466889683

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As a bestselling author and our nation's earliest spokesman, Benjamin Franklin brilliantly extolled virtues of temperance, industry, and self-reliance --character traits which throughout our history have been celebrated as both personally liberating and quintessentially American. In this next installment of the highly successful Bite-Size series, Bite-Size Franklin draws some practical wisdom, and more than a few laughs, from Franklin's intimate letters, scientific essays, newspaper articles, and revolutionary writings, as well as from the pages of career advice, aphorisms, and humorous verse he weaved together in his Autobiography, and in his yearly publication Poor Richard's Almanac.

Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 10,13 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0486484491

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" A fascinating compilation of weather forecasts, recipes, jokes, and aphorisms, Poor Richard's Almanack debuted in 1732. This new edition presents hundreds of Franklin's maxims, along with selections from the Letters, Autobiography, and Franklin's Way to Wealth. An ideal resource for writers, public speakers, and students, this practical, charming little book will delight all readers with its folk wisdom"--