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    Franklin A Sketch
    Franklin A Sketch
    Franklin A Sketch
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    Franklin A Sketch

    By John Bigelow

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Franklin A Sketch - John Bigelow

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      Title: Franklin

             A Sketch

      Author: John Bigelow

      Release Date: September 7, 2012 [EBook #40704]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FRANKLIN ***

      Produced by Tom Cosmas (This file was produced from images

      generously made available by The Internet Archive)

      [Cover]

      FRANKLIN.

      A SKETCH

      JOHN BIGELOW.

      Price 25 Cents]

      [1]

      FRANKLIN

      A SKETCH.

      BY JOHN BIGELOW.

      BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN, & CO.

      1879.

      [2]

      Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1878, by

      LITTLE, BROWN, & COMPANY,

      in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

      [3]

      FRANKLIN.

      Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790), one of the most eminent journalists, diplomatists, statesmen, and philosophers of his time, was born in the city of Boston, and in the colony of Massachusetts Bay, on the 17th of January 1706. He was the youngest of ten children, and the youngest son for five consecutive generations. His father, who was born at Ecton, in Northamptonshire, England, where the family may be traced back for some four centuries, married young, and emigrated to America with three children in 1682, From his parents, who never knew any illness save that of which they died (the father at eighty and the mother at eighty-five), he inherited an excellent constitution, and a good share of those heroic mental and moral qualities by which a good constitution is preserved. In his eighth year Benjamin, who never could remember when he did not know how to read, was placed at school, his parents intending him for the church, That purpose, however, was soon abandoned, and in his tenth year he was taken from school to assist his father, who, though bred a dyer, had taken up, on his arrival in New England, the business of tallow-chandler and soap-boiler. The lad worked at this, to him, most distasteful business, until his twelfth year, when he was apprenticed to his elder brother James, then just returned from England with a new printing press and fount of type, with which he proposed to establish himself in the printing business. In 1720-31 James Franklin also started a newspaper, the second that was published in America, called The New England Courant. Benjamin's tastes inclined him rather to intellectual than to any other kind of pleasures, and his judgment in the selection of books was excellent. At an early age he had wade himself familiar with the Pilgrim's Progress, with Locke On the Understanding, and with some odd volumes of the Spectator, then the literary novelty of the day, which he turned to good account in forming the style which made him what he still remains, the most uniformly readable writer of English who has yet appeared on his side of the Atlantic. His success in reproducing articles he had read some days previously in the Spectator led him to try his hand upon an original article for his brother's paper, which he sent to hire anonymously. It was accepted, and attracted some attention. The experiment was repeated until Benjamin had satisfied himself that his success was not an accident, when he threw off his disguise. He thought that his brother treated him less kindly after this disclosure; but that did not prevent James from publishing his paper in Benjamin's name, when, in consequence of some unfortunate paragraphs which appeared in its columns, he could only obtain his release from prison, to which the colonial assembly had condemned him, upon on that he "would no longer print the New England Courant." The relations of the two brothers, however, gradually grew so inharmonious that Benjamin determined to quit his brother's employment and leave New England. He sold some of his books, and with the proceeds, in October 1723, he found his way to the city of Philadelphia, where, 400 miles from

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