Before Benjamin Franklin became a printer ... “I took Cocker’s book of arithmetic and went through the whole by myself with ...

Benjamin Franklin was sustained by just this kind of printing work. Since it was cheaper to import large books from London, American printing before about 1740 tended to concentrate on small books ...

Of course Benjamin Franklin wrote his own epitaph ... Franklin, Printer; like the Cover of an old Book, Its Contents torn out, And stript of its Lettering and Gilding, Lies here, Food for Worms. But ...

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Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to ...

Franklin's work in electricity and on the editions of Franklin's book. It is intended to serve both as an introduction to the text and as a study of Franklin as a man of science. It gives evidence ...

Benjamin and Deborah Franklin spent all but two of their final ... is apparent in the entry she subsequently made in the shop book, in the place where she should have entered the details about ...