Books with title The Life of Ben Franklin

Now available in paperback for the first time, James Cross Giblin and Michael Dooling tell the story of the man known as the "wisest American."Benjamin Franklin was one of seventeen children, and the youngest of 10 sons. To help out with the family, he was put to work when he was 10 years old in his father's candle and soap-making shop. Ben hated making soap and candles. Since he was smart and a good speller and he loved to read, he later went to work in his brother's print shop as an apprentice. He read book after book, and soon began to write himself. By 18, he moved to Philadelphia where he eventually openend his own print shop. By age 28 he published "Poor Richard's Almanac," a best seller in Colonial America.

Benjamin Franklin : The Life of Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin was a polymath, a universal genius who was good at everything he turned his hand to. In spite of his humble background with only two years of schooling and an unfinished apprenticeship Benjamin Franklin became a witty writer, a man of science and inventor of astonishing things, a linguist, composer, philosopher and statesman. Benjamin Franklin took part in the American Revolution by signing the Declaration of Independence, secured the victory of the colonies over Britain by winning the support of the French and helped to frame the Constitution of the United States. As a politician Benjamin Franklin never tired of doing the best he could and tried to help others to do the same.Benjamin Franklin was an outstanding individual, but had to make private sacrifices too. Benjamin Franklin's wife Deborah was the love of his life, but they had only two children together. Benjamin Franklin's first child Frankie died of small pox when he was four years old, and Benjamin Franklin had to live with the knowledge that a vaccination could have saved his boy’s life. Benjamin Franklin's daughter Sarah had seven children and looked after her father in his old age. Benjamin Franklin's career involved many long stays abroad and as Deborah refused to accompany him, they hardly ever saw each other and she died lonely and heartbroken. William, his illegitimate son from a relationship before his union with Deborah, deeply disappointed his father by staying loyal to the British during the Revolutionary War. Benjamin never forgave his son. Maybe he derived some comfort from the company of his illegitimate grandson who grew up in his household and later became Benjamin’s secretary. There can be personal tragedy in the life of the most admirable human being. Benjamin Franklin is remembered as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.

Ben Franklin greatly influenced all Americans with his work as a diplomat, scientist, and inventor. He signed both the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. In this book, interesting biographical information written in accessible language will introduce beginning readers to one of the most famous Founding Fathers. Fascinating images of Franklin through his life and a helpful timeline of key events will connect young historians to his life and work.

The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value to researchers of domestic and international law, government and politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and much more.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++Harvard Law School Libraryocm12982212Boston : Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1852. 144 p. : port. ; 18 cm.

1967 3rd printing Scholastic Book Services. Paperback. TW 465. He proved that lightning was electricity; wrote a book of wise and funny sayings, invented many useful things. In the city of Philadelphia he started a library, a fire dept., a police dept., and a hospital. He signed the Declaration of independence and helped write the laws of the United States.

Excerpt: ...actually began one. But on considering that any one might repeat his experiments, and ascertain for himself whether or not they were true, he concluded to let his papers shift for themselves; believing it was better to spend what time he could spare in making new experiments than in disputing about those already made. 16. The event gave him no cause to repent of his silence. His friend, Monsieur Le Roy, of the Royal Academy of Sciences, took up his cause, and refuted the abbé. Franklin's volume was translated into the Italian, German and Latin languages; and the doctrine it contained was, by degrees, generally adopted by the philosophers of Europe, in preference to that of Nollet. 17. What gave his book the more sudden and general celebrity was the success of one of its proposed experiments, made at Marly, for drawing lightning from the clouds. This engaged the public attention every where. The "Philadelphia experiments," as they were called, were performed before the king and court, and all the curious of Paris flocked to see them. 18. Dr. Wright, an English physician, was at Paris when they were the talk and wonder of the day. He wrote to a member of the Royal Society an account of the high esteem in which the experiments of Franklin were held by learned men abroad and of their surprise that his writings had been so little noticed in England. The society, on this, resumed the consideration of the letters that had been read to them, and a summary account of their doctrines was drawn up and published among their philosophical essays and transactions. 19. To make Franklin some amends for the slight with which they had before treated him, the society chose him a member, without his having made the usual application. They also presented him with the gold medal of Sir Godfrey Copley for the year 1753, the delivery of which was accompanied by a very complimentary speech from the president, Lord Macclesfield. 1. When did Franklin first attend to...

The following Preface to the Life of Columbus will explain the plan of the series, of which this is the third volume:— "There is no kind of reading more attractive than biography, and, if properly treated, there is none more instructive. It appears, therefore, to be peculiarly fitted to the purposes of education; it readily excites the curiosity and awakens the interest of the pupil, and, while it stores his mind with facts, dates and events, displays to his view the workings of the human heart, and makes him better acquainted with himself and mankind. "In the selection of subjects for a biographical series of works for youth, the editor has been led, by two considerations, to prefer those which belong to our own country. In the first place, it is more particularly necessary that our youth should be made acquainted with the lives of those men who were associated with the history of their native land; and, in the second place, no country can afford happier subjects for biography than this. There are few such lives as those of Columbus, Washington, and Franklin, in the annals of any nation. "In the preparation of the work, the author has sought to adapt it to youth, by the use of a simple style, and by the introduction of many illustrative tales, sketches, anecdotes and adventures. Questions for examining the pupils are printed in the pages, which may be used, or not, at the choice of the Teacher." The Life of Columbus and the Life of Washington, on a plan similar to this, have been already published; and other volumes, containing the lives of celebrated Indian Chiefs, celebrated American Statesmen, &c., will appear hereafter, if those already in progress should meet with success. ILLUSTRATED BY: TALES, SKETCHES, AND ANECDOTES. ADAPTED TO THE USE OF SCHOOLS. WITH ENGRAVINGS. PHILADELPHIA: DESILVER, THOMAS & CO., No. 253 MARKET STREET. 1836.