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  • " "Benjamin Franklin."†   (source)
  • ON OCTOBER 18, a raw, gloomy Wednesday, a congressional committee of three, including Benjamin Franklin, gathered by a roaring fire in Washington's study and, after lengthy deliberations with the commander and his generals, concluded that if an attack on Boston meant the destruction of the town, they could not approve.†   (source)
  • By 1760, Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia's most illustrious citizen, reckoned that Scots-Irish accounted for a third of the city population, with English and Germans each another third.†   (source)
  • The Tappan brothers were early supporters of the abolitionist cause as well as grand-nephews of the founder of America's first abolitionist society, Benjamin Franklin.†   (source)
  • The things which hurt instruct—Benjamin Franklin.†   (source)
  • If I know Benjamin Franklin Tanner, he'd fret more than me if his cows found my corn.†   (source)
  • Great men like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin, who signed the Declaration of Independence and whom you see on our money today, agreed that God and the Bible would be their moral compasses for constructing the greatest nation on Earth.†   (source)
  • I would happily set print by hand, like Benjamin Franklin.†   (source)
  • "Benjamin Franklin once said: 'Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.'†   (source)
  • His own favorite book was The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.†   (source)
  • -BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, THE GAZETTEER AND NEW DAILY ADVERTISER†   (source)
  • Robert, my name is Benjamin Franklin Tanner.†   (source)
  • Seated beside Benjamin Franklin, the young Virginian looked on in silence.†   (source)
  • Benjamin Franklin had departed on a mission to France.†   (source)
  • In addition, the library displayed precious Masonic jewels, ritual artifacts, and even a rare volume that had been hand-printed by Benjamin Franklin.†   (source)
  • If Benjamin Franklin had lived long enough (he died in 1790), he would have been thrilled with the event.†   (source)
  • This concealed "college" quickly became a brain trust of the world's most enlightened minds—those of Isaac Newton, Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle, and even Benjamin Franklin.†   (source)
  • THE ORDER EIGHT FRANKLIN SQUARE One of history's best-known magic squares is the order-eight square published in 1769 by American scientist Benjamin Franklin, and which became famous for its inclusion of never-before-seen "bent diagonal summations."†   (source)
  • Fifty years earlier, when young Benjamin Franklin arrived from Boston with a single "Dutch" (German) dollar in his pocket, Philadelphia had been a town of 10,000 people.†   (source)
  • That honor belonged to George Whitfield, an orator of such power and charisma that, it was said, he once charmed a five-pound contribution out of Benjamin Franklin — who was, of course, the furthest thing from a churchgoer.†   (source)
  • Benjamin Franklin, whose print shop had published in German, wrote in 1751 that Pennsylvania "will in a few years become a German Colony: Instead of their learning our language, we must learn their's [sic], or live as in a foreign country.†   (source)
  • From the town of Learning, a perfect yoke of matched yearlings by name of Bob and Bib, owned by Mr. Benjamin Franklin Tanner, and worked in the ring by Mr. Robert Peck.†   (source)
  • ON SEPTEMBER 14, 1778, at Philadelphia, Congress named Benjamin Franklin minister plenipotentiary to the Court of Louis XVI.†   (source)
  • AT PHILADELPHIA, after days of debate, Congress decided to send a delegation of three—Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Edward Rutledge—to meet with Lord Howe.†   (source)
  • "It is a true saying of a wit," wrote Carter Braxton of Virginia, referring possibly to Benjamin Franklin, "we must hang together or separately."†   (source)
  • In early March, Jefferson started for New York, stopping briefly at Philadelphia to pay a last visit to Benjamin Franklin, who was mortally ill.†   (source)
  • Arrangements were made for John Quincy to attend a nearby boarding school also attended by one of Franklin's grandsons, eight-year-old Benjamin Franklin Bache.†   (source)
  • Rush—high-spirited, handsome, and all of thirty—had studied medicine in Edinburgh and in London, where he came to know Benjamin Franklin and once dined with Samuel Johnson and James Boswell.†   (source)
  • On September 26, Congress took the momentous step of appointing Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson as commissioners to the Court of France, to serve with Silas Deane.†   (source)
  • News spread that Benjamin Franklin, en route from France to Philadelphia, had been captured by Barbary pirates, and though untrue, the story caused a sensation.†   (source)
  • The first call of the day was on Benjamin Franklin, and from that point on Adams was kept steadily on the move, with sights to see, social engagements, dinners, teas, the theater.†   (source)
  • Even Benjamin Franklin, who adamantly opposed slavery, had once owned two black house servants and had personally traded in slaves, buying and selling from his Market Street print shop.†   (source)
  • Public-spirited Philadelphians inspired by Benjamin Franklin had established the first volunteer fire company in the colonies, the first medical school, and a library.†   (source)
  • In Maryland, delegate Samuel Chase, who had earlier gone to Canada with Benjamin Franklin, was rounding up support for independence, as perhaps no one else could have.†   (source)
  • THE TWO ADAMSES took their leave of Benjamin Franklin and others at Passy on March 8, 1779, and, with the servant Stephens, departed by post chaise for the coast of Brittany.†   (source)
  • Benjamin Franklin's letter of August 9, describing Vergennes's displeasure with Adams, had only recently arrived in Philadelphia and ignited sharp debate.†   (source)
  • The President was assailed in print as never before, and nowhere more than in the Aurora, which was edited by young Benjamin Franklin Bache, the grandson of Franklin who had once been John Quincy's schoolmate in France.†   (source)
  • Present nearly every day, notwithstanding his years and infirmities, was Benjamin Franklin, who, at age seventy, was popularly perceived to be the oldest, wisest head in the Congress, which he was, and the most influential, which he was not.†   (source)
  • After an evening stroll with Hannah through Braintree—through "Cupid's Grove"—Adams spent a long night and most of the next day with Parson Wibird, talking and reading aloud from Benjamin Franklin's Reflections on Courtship and Marriage.†   (source)
  • A committee was appointed, the Committee of Five, as it became known, consisting of Jefferson, Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, and Benjamin Franklin, who had by now returned from his expedition to Canada but was ill and exhausted and rarely seen.†   (source)
  • In the pages of the Aurora, Benjamin Franklin Bache proclaimed John Adams a hero in a way incon-ceivable before, lauding the "Republican plainness" of Adams's appearance, his "true dignity," his "incorruptible integrity."†   (source)
  • On June 15, the provincial legislature of New Jersey had ordered the arrest of its royal governor, William Franklin, the estranged, illegitimateson of Benjamin Franklin, and authorized its delegates in Congress to vote for independence.†   (source)
  • The anonymous author was revealed to be a down-at-the-heels English immigrant, Thomas Paine, who had landed at Philadelphia a year earlier with little more than a letter of introduction from Benjamin Franklin.†   (source)
  • Whether Benjamin Franklin quipped "We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall hang separately" is impossible to know, just as there is no way to confirm the much-repeated story that the diminutive John Hancock wrote his name large so the King might read it without his spectacles.†   (source)
  • Early in February 1796, on the same day Benjamin Franklin Bache declared in the Aurora that "good patriot" Jefferson was the inevitable and ideal choice to replace Washington, Adams professed to be tired of politics.†   (source)
  • In a great shift of government, Charles James Fox, who was known to favor immediate recognition of American independence, became Foreign Secretary and to the post of Secretary of Colonial Affairs was named Lord William Shelburne, who, though he opposed American independence, sent a retired Scottish merchant named Richard Oswald to Paris to sound out Benjamin Franklin on the prospect of negotiations.†   (source)
  • In the hope that the Canadians could be persuaded to join the American cause as "the 14th colony," Congress organized a diplomatic expedition to Montreal with Benjamin Franklin at its head, and despite his age and poor health, Franklin departed on what was to be an exceedingly arduous and futile mission.†   (source)
  • The hostility Uncle Hal nursed toward Uncle Charlie had nothing to do with politics but a good deal to do with The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.†   (source)
  • Uncle Charlie, seated in an armchair, had been rereading The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, which now lay on the floor where it had landed when Uncle Hal knocked it out of his hands just before I came in.†   (source)
  • Wasn't it Benjamin Franklin who tied a key to a kite?†   (source)
  • " He gave her one of the firm's cards with his full name, Benjamin Franklin Blake, written in the corner.†   (source)
  • A long time later he showed me that, too, and as I thumbed idly through it, noticing the quotations from Emerson and Macaulay and Benjamin Franklin and Shakespeare copied out in a ragged, boyish hand, he said with that same tone of amiable contempt, "Gee, back in those days I figured those fellows who wrote the books knew all there was.†   (source)
  • Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the declaration of Independence.†   (source)
  • [See Benjamin Franklin] The Executive Power Of The State Office of Governor in an American State—The place he occupies in relation to the Legislature—His rights and his duties—His dependence on the people.†   (source)
  • The suggestion of the Committee was adopted and passed into a law, but the effect of it was null, for the journal eluded the prohibition by putting the name of Benjamin Franklin instead of James Franklin at the bottom of its columns, and this manoeuvre was supported by public opinion.†   (source)
  • The grandmother of Benjamin Franklin was Mary Morrel; afterwards, by marriage, Mary Folger, one of the old settlers of Nantucket, and the ancestress to a long line of Folgers and harpooneers—all kith and kin to noble Benjamin—this day darting the barbed iron from one side of the world to the other.†   (source)
  • THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.†   (source)
  • Some proposed to evade the order by changing the name of the paper; but my brother, seeing inconveniences in that, it was finally concluded on as a better way, to let it be printed for the future under the name of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN; and to avoid the censure of the Assembly, that might fall on him as still printing it by his apprentice, the contrivance was that my old indenture should be return'd to me, with a full discharge on the back of it, to be shown on occasion, but to secure to…†   (source)
  • BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.†   (source)
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  • Benjamin Franklin, when he wrote his "Scheme for a New Alphabet and a Reformed Mode of Spelling," in 1768, apparently had no suspicion that any other /a/ was possible.†   (source)
  • Benjamin Franklin's "Poor Richard's Almanac," begun in 1732, remained a great success for twenty-five years, and the annual sales reached 10,000.†   (source)
  • In his little volume of "Dissertations on the English Language," printed in 1789 and dedicated to "His Excellency, Benjamin Franklin, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S., late President of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania," Webster argued that the time for regarding English usage and submitting to English authority had already passed, and that "a future separation of the American tongue from the English" was "necessary and unavoidable."†   (source)
  • So early as 1768 Benjamin Franklin had published his "Scheme for a New Alphabet and a Reformed Mode of Spelling, with Remarks and Examples Concerning the Same, and an Enquiry Into its Uses" and induced a Philadelphia typefounder to cut type for it, but this scheme was too extravagant to be adopted anywhere, or to have any appreciable influence upon spelling.†   (source)
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