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Benjamin Franklin: a biography in his own words. New York: Newsweek. ISBN 978-0-8822-5033-5. Franklin, Phyllis (1969). Show thyself a man. A comparison of Benjamin Franklin and Cotton Mather. The Hague, Paris, Mouton. ISBN 978-3-1110-1370-1. Hall, Max (1960). Benjamin Franklin & Polly Baker: the history of a literary deception. University of ...
"Advice to a Friend on Choosing a Mistress" is a letter by Benjamin Franklin dated June 25, 1745, in which Franklin counsels a young man about channeling sexual urges. Due to its licentious nature the letter was not published in collections of Franklin's papers in the United States during the 19th century.
In his early years, Franklin owned seven slaves, including two men who worked in his household and his shop, but in his later years became an adherent of abolition. [ 256 ] [ 257 ] A revenue stream for his newspaper was paid ads for the sale of slaves and for the capture of runaway slaves and Franklin allowed the sale of slaves in his general ...
Franklin punned that compared to his ruminations on flatulence, other scientific investigations were "scarcely worth a FART-HING" "A Letter to a Royal Academy" [1] (sometimes "A Letter to a Royal Academy about Farting" or "Fart Proudly" [2] [3]) is the name of an essay about flatulence written by Benjamin Franklin c. 1781 while he was living abroad as United States Ambassador to France. [1]
The description of Abiah in Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography is very brief — only two sentences — and has been the focus of recent scholarship. [6] Matthew Garrett wrote that "the Autobiography is perhaps the finest example within the modern narrative tradition of a text that habitually compresses major characters - those, that is, who play integral and significant roles within the plot ...
Angelina Jolie honored her late mother, Marcheline Bertrand, as she accepted the the Gotham Awards’ Performer Tribute in New York City on Monday, Dec. 2
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 March 2025. Pen name Silence Dogood Essay in the New-England Courant Silence Dogood was the pen name used by Benjamin Franklin to get his work published in the New-England Courant, a newspaper founded and published by his brother James Franklin. This was after Benjamin Franklin was denied several times ...
Kathy Bates has shared her disbelief after she was reminded about a detail she had forgotten from her Oscars acceptance speech in 1991. Speaking to CBS Sunday Morning host Ben ... My mom at home ...