item: #1 of 21
          id: 11174
      author: Baldwin, James
       title: Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln A Book for Young Americans
        date: None
       words: 39385
      flesch: 88
     summary: Young men can sometimes be trusted with great undertakings as well as if they were older. Most of them were big boys and girls, and a few were grown up young men.
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        item: #2 of 21
          id: 13911
      author: Hubbard, Elbert
       title: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen
        date: None
       words: 66515
      flesch: 74
     summary: He had been chosen selectman to fill the place that his uncle had occupied, and when Samuel Adams incidentally dropped a remark that good men were needed in the General Court, John Hancock agreed with him. Good men who are capable are always needed.
    keywords: adams; america; boston; boy; british; clay; college; colonies; congress; country; day; days; england; face; fact; family; father; franklin; general; george; good; hamilton; hancock; hand; head; heart; henry; home; house; jay; jefferson; john; john adams; john hancock; law; life; lincoln; little; love; man; men; mother; new; office; people; place; president; public; right; samuel; samuel adams; school; seward; state; things; thought; time; town; united; washington; way; webster; wife; work; world; years; york; young
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        item: #3 of 21
          id: 148
      author: Franklin, Benjamin
       title: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
        date: None
       words: 10
      flesch: 44
     summary: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin edited by Charles Eliot presented
    keywords: autobiography
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        item: #4 of 21
          id: 16931
      author: Eliot, Charles William
       title: Four American Leaders
        date: None
       words: 16174
      flesch: 60
     summary: The work of giving practical effect to his thought was left for other men to do,--indeed for generations of other serviceable men, who, filled with his ideals, will slowly work them out into institutions, customs, and other practical values. Our expectation of good service and hard work from boys of sixteen, not to speak of young men of twenty-six, is very low.
    keywords: american; art; channing; country; day; education; emerson; franklin; good; liberty; life; man; men; nature; new; people; power; public; thought; time; war; washington; work; years
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        item: #5 of 21
          id: 20203
      author: Franklin, Benjamin
       title: Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
        date: None
       words: 76955
      flesch: 66
     summary: I thought so; but I was not then so well acquainted with his lordship's character, of which _indecision_ was one of the strongest features. There will be sleeping enough in the Grave_, as _Poor Richard_ says. _
    keywords: account; affairs; assembly; autobiography; books; boston; business; company; country; day; days; england; english; father; franklin; friends; general; good; governor; great; hands; house; illustration; keimer; length; letters; life; little; london; man; means; men; money; near; new; number; occasion; opinion; order; paper; pennsylvania; people; philadelphia; place; poor; pounds; present; printing; public; purpose; read; saw; service; set; street; things; thought; thro; time; way; work; writing; years; york; young
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        item: #6 of 21
          id: 21348
      author: Morse, John T., Jr. (John Torrey)
       title: Benjamin Franklin
        date: None
       words: 118042
      flesch: 59
     summary: Before leaving France Franklin had begged for this act of simple, business-like justice, which it was the duty of Congress to initiate without solicitation; he had the fate of the poor unhappy Deane before his eyes, to make him uncomfortable, but in this respect he was treated no better than that misused man. By permission of Congress Franklin replied by a long letter, not deficient in courtesy of language, but full of argument upon the American side, and in a tone which there was no misconceiving.
    keywords: act; adams; affairs; agent; american; assembly; benjamin franklin; bills; british; business; colonial; colonies; commissioners; concerning; congress; country; course; day; days; deane; england; english; europe; fact; france; franklin; french; general; good; government; governor; hand; home; house; independence; jay; king; lee; letters; life; lord; man; matter; men; mind; minister; money; new; note; paris; parliament; pay; peace; pennsylvania; people; personal; philadelphia; point; position; power; present; public; right; states; thought; time; treaty; vergennes; war; way; works; years
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        item: #7 of 21
          id: 26295
      author: Thayer, William Makepeace
       title: The Printer Boy; Or, How Benjamin Franklin Made His Mark An Example for Youth.
        date: None
       words: 60961
      flesch: 74
     summary: So it was with young Benjamin Franklin. It was a bright, welcome holiday to little Benjamin Franklin, when his kind parents put some coppers into his pocket, to spend as he saw fit.
    keywords: age; benjamin; benjamin franklin; books; boston; boy; boys; brother; business; chapter; day; father; franklin; good; governor; home; house; james; john; keimer; life; man; men; money; new; office; paper; philadelphia; printer; printing; read; reading; school; thought; time; way; work; years; young
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        item: #8 of 21
          id: 26442
      author: Butterworth, Hezekiah
       title: True to His Home: A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin
        date: None
       words: 84597
      flesch: 86
     summary: THAT was a charmed life that little Ben Franklin led in the early days of his apprenticeship. Well, little Ben Franklin, you just put up your kite and attend to the candle molds, and let swimmin' in the air all go.
    keywords: age; america; ben; ben franklin; benjamin; benjamin franklin; boston; boy; brother; day; door; england; family; father; franklin; good; governor; great; hand; heart; home; house; jenny; josiah; josiah franklin; king; know; life; little; man; men; mind; new; pamphlets; paper; people; philadelphia; place; poet; poor; read; right; sea; silence; sir; story; things; thought; time; town; uncle; uncle ben; uncle benjamin; want; way; william; work; world; years; young
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        item: #9 of 21
          id: 29482
      author: More, Paul Elmer
       title: Benjamin Franklin
        date: None
       words: 24416
      flesch: 65
     summary: But for one reason and another the governor delayed writing the letters, and at last Franklin actually found himself afloat and on the way to London without a word from his patron. On the way to Philadelphia Franklin had collected the money due to Vernon, and Collins pressed him until he drew largely on this sum to help the spendthrift.
    keywords: american; benjamin; boston; boy; business; congress; day; days; england; franklin; french; friends; good; governor; great; home; house; life; man; men; mind; money; new; paper; pennsylvania; people; philadelphia; philosopher; read; time; way; work; years
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        item: #10 of 21
          id: 30406
      author: Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
       title: Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago
        date: None
       words: 80797
      flesch: 69
     summary: Three years after, the captain called again at the house of Mr. Franklin. Governor Shirley, of Boston, showed Mr. Franklin a plan, drawn up in England, for conducting the war.
    keywords: age; america; americans; assembly; benjamin franklin; boston; british; business; character; colonies; congress; country; court; day; days; dollars; england; english; father; france; franklin; french; friends; general; god; good; government; governor; great; home; house; john; king; letter; life; london; lord; man; men; mind; money; new; office; paper; pennsylvania; people; philadelphia; place; power; read; religion; return; said; son; thought; time; war; william franklin; world; years; young
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        item: #11 of 21
          id: 36338
      author: Franklin, Benjamin
       title: Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 1 of 2] With His Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical, Selected with Care from All His Published Productions, and Comprising Whatever Is Most Entertaining and Valuable to the General Reader
        date: None
       words: 91438
      flesch: 63
     summary: Show then, sir, how much is to be done, _both to sons and fathers_; and invite all wise men to become like yourself, and other men to become wise. I went to their church, where I was entertained with good music, the organ being accompanied with violins, haut-boys, flutes, clarinets, &c. I understood their sermons were not usually preached to mixed congregations of men, women, and children, as is our common practice, but that they assembled sometimes the married men, at other times their wives, then the young men, the young women, and the little children, each division by itself.
    keywords: account; act; afterward; america; assembly; books; business; character; colonies; country; day; england; father; franklin; friends; general; good; governor; house; indians; inhabitants; interest; left; length; letter; life; man; means; men; money; near; new; number; occasion; opinion; order; paper; parliament; pay; people; philadelphia; poor; pounds; printing; public; read; right; set; small; tax; thought; time; town; way; work; years
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        item: #12 of 21
          id: 36376
      author: Weems, M. L. (Mason Locke)
       title: The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers
        date: None
       words: 98858
      flesch: 71
     summary: Having always been of opinion, that in democratical governments, there ought to be no offices of _great_ profit, I have long determined to give a part of my public salary to public uses; and being chiefly indebted to Massachusetts, my _native_ state, and Pennsylvania, my _adopted_ state, for lucrative employments, I feel it my duty to remember them; and having from long observation, and my own early experience, discovered that the best objects for assistance are indigent young persons, and the best modes of assistance, a plain education, a good trade, and a little money to set them up; and having been set up in business, while a poor boy, in Philadelphia, by kind loans of money from two friends there, which was the foundation of my fortune and all the usefulness that the world ascribed to me, I feel a wish to be useful, after my death, to others, in the loans of money; I therefore devote, from the savings of my salaries, the following sums, to the following persons and uses: 1. Then looking very gravely at him, she said, But though my dream showed that the book was to be bought by a _little_ man, it did not say he was always to be little.
    keywords: america; ben; books; boston; british; brother; business; chapter; child; collins; country; day; days; dear; doctor; england; eyes; family; father; fine; following; franklin; friend; god; good; governor; great; hand; happy; having; head; heart; heaven; house; james; keimer; life; light; lightning; london; look; lord; love; man; men; mind; money; nature; new; old; people; philadelphia; place; pleasure; poor; printing; read; religion; set; sir; son; thee; thing; thought; time; way; work; world; years; young
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        item: #13 of 21
          id: 36896
      author: Bruce, Wiliam Cabell
       title: Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed, Volume 1 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings
        date: None
       words: 187495
      flesch: 60
     summary: Franklin _was_ at times the wily American, but usually for the purpose of improving the condition of his fellow creatures in spite of themselves. It is plain enough that in practice as well as in precept to Franklin life was ever a welcome gift to be enjoyed so long as corporeal infirmities permit it to be enjoyed, and to be surrendered, when the ends of its institution can no longer be fulfilled, as naturally as we surrender consciousness when we turn into our warmer beds and give ourselves over to our shorter slumbers.
    keywords: affection; age; america; autobiography; benjamin franklin; book; boston; brillon; brother; business; care; character; children; company; country; course; daughter; day; days; dear; death; deborah; doctor; england; english; fact; family; father; france; franklin; franklin bache; french; friends; friendship; general; god; good; great; half; hand; having; heart; home; hope; house; human; husband; interest; john; kind; king; later; left; letter; letter franklin; life; little; live; london; lord; love; madame; man; men; mind; money; mother; mrs; nature; new; occasion; office; opinion; pennsylvania; people; philadelphia; place; pleasure; poor; pounds; present; public; purpose; read; reason; relations; religion; respect; return; richard; sally; second; send; sense; set; sir; sister; small; society; son; spirit; strahan; subject; tell; temple franklin; terms; things; thought; time; virtue; war; way; wife; william franklin; wish; words; world; years; young
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        item: #14 of 21
          id: 36897
      author: Bruce, Wiliam Cabell
       title: Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume 2 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings
        date: None
       words: 195065
      flesch: 59
     summary: Fearing that Bradford might employ him, and secure the work, Keimer sent Franklin word that old friends should not be estranged by a few passionate words, and that he hoped Franklin would return to him. To this Little England Franklin steadfastly opposed his conception of an Imperial England, based upon the freedom of all its parts to contribute to the wealth and importance of the whole by the full enjoyment of all their peculiar natural gifts and advantages.
    keywords: adams; air; america; assembly; autobiography; benjamin; benjamin franklin; bills; body; boston; britain; british; business; character; colonies; commissioners; committee; common; conduct; congress; council; country; course; day; days; england; english; fact; father; fire; form; france; franklin; free; french; friends; general; good; government; governor; great; hand; house; human; interest; james; john; keimer; kind; king; laws; lee; left; letter; life; light; little; london; lord; making; man; manner; means; members; men; mind; money; nature; near; new; note; occasion; office; opinion; paper; parliament; pay; pennsylvania; people; person; philadelphia; place; point; poor; pounds; power; present; printing; province; public; purpose; read; regard; relations; respect; return; richard; set; sir; small; states; subject; terms; things; thomas; thought; time; united; value; vergennes; war; water; way; william; william franklin; words; work; world; years; young
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        item: #15 of 21
          id: 38469
      author: Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)
       title: The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Illustrated by Tales, Sketches, and Anecdotes
        date: None
       words: 40404
      flesch: 77
     summary: The rioters advanced to Germantown, and the governor fled for safety to the house of Dr. Franklin. When Lord Howe came to America in 1776, with powers to effect an accommodation with the colonists, a correspondence on the subject took place between him and Dr. Franklin.
    keywords: anecdote; assembly; benjamin; brother; business; chapter; day; father; franklin; friends; general; good; governor; house; indians; keimer; man; men; money; new; number; office; paper; philadelphia; poor; read; return; richard; subject; thought; time; way; year
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        item: #16 of 21
          id: 40236
      author: Franklin, Benjamin
       title: Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 2 of 2] With his Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical, Selected with Care from All His Published Productions, and Comprising Whatever Is Most Entertaining and Valuable to the General Reader
        date: None
       words: 90036
      flesch: 68
     summary: Sir,--There are many people that would be thought, and even think themselves, _honest_ men, who fail nevertheless in particular points of honesty; deviating from that character sometimes by the prevalence of mode or custom, and sometimes through mere inattention, so that their _honesty_ is partial only, and not _general_ or universal. When the well is dry, they know the worth of water_.
    keywords: air; america; body; business; cold; country; day; dear; earth; england; fire; fluid; force; franklin; friend; general; good; government; happiness; heat; hope; house; kind; king; leave; letter; life; man; manner; matter; men; mind; money; motion; nature; new; opinion; parts; people; place; pleasure; poor; power; present; public; quantity; reason; right; salt; sea; sir; state; things; time; use; virtue; water; way; world; years
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        item: #17 of 21
          id: 40704
      author: Bigelow, John
       title: Franklin: A Sketch
        date: None
       words: 10938
      flesch: 54
     summary: For his three years' service as president of Pennsylvania Franklin refused to accept any compensation beyond a reimbursement of the postage he had paid on official letters, amounting to some £77, 5s. Writing to the French minister in Philadelphia, December 4, 1780, the Count de Vergennes said-- As to Dr Franklin, his conduct leaves congress nothing to desire.
    keywords: act; america; assembly; colonies; colonists; congress; england; france; franklin; government; king; life; new; philadelphia; public; time; years
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        item: #18 of 21
          id: 43809
      author: Franklin, Benjamin
       title: Benjamin Franklin and the First Balloons
        date: None
       words: 6259
      flesch: 69
     summary: Although the American owners of these copies did not allow them to be transcribed, Mr. Smyth states that he printed one letter from my copy, and he noted how the other copies differed from the drafts in the University of Pennsylvania. from whence I could well see it rise, & have an extensive View of the Region of Air thro' which, as the Wind sat, it was likely to pass.
    keywords: air; balloon; bigelow; copy; experiment; franklin; letter; sir; smyth; wind
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        item: #19 of 21
          id: 48136
      author: Franklin, Benjamin
       title: The Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics and Morals of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 1 [of 3]
        date: None
       words: 141592
      flesch: 66
     summary: Franklin at first entertained the same idea; but upon repeating the experiments, he perceived that Mr. Kinnersley was right; and that the _vitreous_ and _resinous_ electricity of du Faye were nothing more than the _positive_, and _negative_ states which he had before observed; and that the glass globe charged _positively_ or increased the quantity of electricity on the prime conductor, while the globe of sulphur diminished its natural quantity, or charged _negatively_. In order to this, let it first be considered, _that we cannot by any means we are yet acquainted with, force the electrical fluid through glass_.
    keywords: account; air; america; atmosphere; balls; bodies; body; bottle; business; clouds; conductor; cork; distance; dry; earth; effect; electric; electricity; electrified; end; england; experiments; find; finger; fire; fluid; force; franklin; general; glass; globe; good; great; half; hand; house; iii; inches; iron; letter; life; lightning; long; manner; matter; means; money; negative; new; non; number; observations; order; paper; particles; parts; phial; philadelphia; place; point; power; quantity; read; rod; round; sea; shock; sir; small; spark; state; stroke; surface; thunder; time; tube; water; wax; way; wire; years
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        item: #20 of 21
          id: 48138
      author: Franklin, Benjamin
       title: The Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics and Morals of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 3 [of 3]
        date: None
       words: 173307
      flesch: 65
     summary: They reflected how lightly the interest of _all_ America had been estimated here, when the interests of a _few_ of the inhabitants of Great Britain happened to have the smallest competition with it. But _envy_ seems to have taken possession of their hearts, and to have eaten out and destroyed every generous, noble, public-spirited sentiment.
    keywords: account; act; advantage; america; assembly; bills; body; britain; british; business; case; colonies; colony; commerce; common; constitution; council; country; crown; england; english; expence; franklin; french; general; good; government; governor; great; having; house; iii; increase; indians; inhabitants; interest; kind; king; laws; letter; life; long; majesty; man; manufactures; means; money; nation; new; number; occasion; opinion; order; paper; parliament; particular; pay; pensylvania; people; persons; place; plan; poor; power; present; proprietaries; proprietary; province; public; right; shall; sir; state; subjects; tax; taxes; thing; thought; time; trade; union; value; war; years
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        item: #21 of 21
          id: 9607
      author: Thayer, William Makepeace
       title: From Boyhood to Manhood: Life of Benjamin Franklin
        date: None
       words: 123596
      flesch: 77
     summary: Decision to Leave James--Cruelty of the Latter--The Indenture-- Discussion over It with Collins--Advised to Get Place in Another Printing Office in Boston--James Had Warned Them against Hiring Him--Discloses His Decision to James--Unfair Use of Indenture--What Benjamin Said of It Afterwards--Resolved to Run Away--Planned The Method With Collins--Why Go by Water--How He Obtained Money--Collins Engages His Passage--Collins' Deliberate Lie--On the Road to Ruin--Collins' Report to Benjamin--Final Arrangements--Boarding the Sloop--Scene off Block Island--Ben Converted to Flesh--Benjamin Franklin's Experience Like William Hutton's. XIX. TRIALS OF A RUNAWAY. Birth of Benjamin Franklin on Sunday--The Fifteenth Child--God's Gift--Proposition to Baptize Him the Same Day--Discussion over It--Baptized on That Day by Doctor Willard--The Church Record--House in Which He was Born--Josiah's Children--Death of Wife and Second Marriage--The Folger Family--Name for Uncle Benjamin--Personal Beauty--Words of Parton--Josiah Took Up Trade of Tallow-chandler--The Business and Place Described--Sons Apprenticed--Josiah a Good Musician--Condition of the World When Benjamin was Born in 1706.
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