AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE
1. Ancestry and Early Youth in Boston
2. Beginning Life as a Printer
3. Arrival in Philadelphia
4. First Visit to Boston
5. Early Friends in Philadelphia
6. First Visit to London
7. Beginning Business in Philadelphia
8. Business Success and First Public Service
PART TWO
9. Plan for Attaining Moral Perfection
PART THREE
10. Poor Richard’’s Almanac and Other Activities
11. Interest in Public Affairs
12. Defense of the Province
13. Public Services and Duties (1749~1753)
14. Albany Plan of Union
15. Quarrels with the Proprietary Governors
16. Braddock’’s Expedition
17. Franklin’’s Defense of the Frontier
18. Scientific Experiments
19. Agent of Pennsylvania in London
PART FOUR
SELECTED WRITINGS
NEWSPAPER WRITINGS: 1722～1734
Silence Dogood, No. 7 (1722)
Preface to the Pennsylvania Gazette (1729)
A Witch Trial at Mount Holly
POOR RICHARD’’S ALMANAC: 1733～1758
Preface to Poor Richard ( 1733)
Preface to Poor Richard (1739)
The Way to Wealth
PROJECTS: 1728～1749
Rules for a Club Established for Mutual Improvement(1728)
A Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge among the
British Plantations in America (1743)
OBSERVATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS: 1744-1785
An Account of the New Invented Pennsylvanian Fireplaces
Of Lightning (The Lightning Road)(1767)
ESSAYS: 1747～1768
The Speech of Polly Baker(1747)
Exporting of Felons to the Colonies (1751)
Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, and the
Peopling of Countries (1751)
On the Price of Corn, and Management of the Poor (1766)
LETTERS: 1771～1775
What Sort of Husbands Would Be Fittest (1771)
To Jonathan Shipley (1775)
REVOLUTIONARY WRITINGS: 1766-1787
Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a
Small One; Presented privately to a late Minister, when he
entered upon his Administration(1773)
To the Count de Vergennes, a Diplomatic Apology (1782)
Speech in the Convention, at the Constitution of Its Deliberrations(1787)
WISE, PRACTICAL, AND HUMOROUS WRITINGS OF THE AGED SAGE: 1722-1790
To Joseph Priestley, On Moral Algebra, or Decision-making(1772)
The Ephemera (1778)
The Whistle (1779)
On Cotton Mather (1784)
A Letter to Samuel Mather (1784)
To Ezra Stiles a Religious Credo (1790)
POEMS AND EPITAPH
I Sing My Plain Country Joan
Franklin’’s Epitaph
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