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    Franklin's Way to Wealth or, 'Poor Richard Improved'
    Franklin's Way to Wealth or, 'Poor Richard Improved'
    Franklin's Way to Wealth or, 'Poor Richard Improved'
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    Franklin's Way to Wealth or, 'Poor Richard Improved'

    By Benjamin Franklin

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    Franklin's Way to Wealth or, 'Poor Richard Improved'
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    Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was an American writer, printer, politician, postmaster, scientist, and diplomat. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Franklin found success at a young age as editor and printer of the Pennsylvania Gazette, a prominent Philadelphia newspaper. From 1732 to 1758, Franklin published Poor Richard’s Almanack, a popular yearly pamphlet that earned Franklin much of his wealth. An influential Philadelphian, Franklin founded the Academy and College of Philadelphia, which would become the University of Pennsylvania, in 1751. In addition, Franklin founded the Library Company of Philadelphia, as well as the city’s first fire department. As revolutionary sentiment was on the rise in the thirteen colonies, Franklin traveled to London to advocate on behalf of Americans unhappy with British rule, earning a reputation as a skilled diplomat and shrewd negotiator. During the American Revolution, his relationships with French officials would prove essential for the war effort, the success of which depended upon munitions shipments from France. Over the next few decades, he would serve as the first postmaster general of the United States and as governor of Pennsylvania while maintaining his diplomatic duties. A dedicated and innovative scientist, Franklin is credited with important discoveries regarding the nature of electricity, as well as with inventing the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove. A slaveowner for many years, Franklin eventually became an abolitionist. Although he failed to raise the issue during the 1787 Constitutional Convention, he led the Pennsylvania Abolitionist Society and wrote essays on the subject of slavery, which he deemed “an atrocious debasement of human nature.”

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      Franklin's Way to Wealth or, 'Poor Richard Improved' - Benjamin Franklin

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      Title: Franklin's Way to Wealth

             or, 'Poor Richard Improved'

      Author: Benjamin Franklin

      Release Date: October 1, 2013 [EBook #43855]

      Language: English

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      THE

      WAY TO WEALTH.

      FRANKLIN'S

      WAY TO WEALTH;

      OR,

      LONDON:

      Printed by and for W. and T. Darton,

      No. 58, Holborn-Hill.

      1810.

      TO PARENTS, GOVERNESSES, AND SCHOOL MASTERS.

      Just Published,

      A GRAMMATICAL CATECHISM for the use of Schools, upon the plan of Lindley Murray.

      This manual is particularly adapted to the purposes of examination and catechetical instruction, and will be found of the utmost service in weekly grammatical enquiries.

      This Day is Published, Price 5s. 12mo. bound,

      THE PAGAN MYTHOLOGY of ancient Greece and Rome versified, accompanied with Philosophical Elucidations of the probable latent meaning of some of the Fables of the Ancients, on a theory entirely new. By R. ATKINS. Illustrated by twenty-two Cuts on Wood.

      "This little work is intended as an easy Introduction to the Mythology of ancient Greece and Rome, and is particularly adapted to the use of Schools, being divested of the obscene allegories introduced by the ancients in their usual figurative style. It is certainly better calculated to convey a general idea of the subject, than any attempt of the kind which has yet fallen under our observation. The Poetical Illustrations are simple,

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