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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 Richards Almanac and Other Activities

11.1/nterest 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. Braddocks Expedition

17. Franklins Defense of the Frontier

18. Scientific Exoeriments

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 RICHARDS 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 Com, 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 Ver~ennes, a Diolomatic Aoolo （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

Franklins Epitaph

Appendix

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