| Franklin at the Court of Louis XVI | [Frontispiece] |
"He was therefore, feasted and invited to all the court parties. At these he sometimes met the old Duchess of Bourbon, who, being a chess player of about his force, they very generally played together. Happening once to put her king into prize, the Doctor took it. 'Ah,' says she, 'we do not take kings so.' 'We do in America,' said the Doctor."—Thomas Jefferson
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Portrait of Franklin | ||
Pages 1 and 4 of The Pennsylvania Gazette,Number XL, the first number after Franklin took control | ||
First page of The New England Courant ofDecember 4-11, 1721 | ||
"I was employed to carry the papers thro' thestreets to the customers" | ||
"She, standing at the door, saw me, and thought Imade, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculousappearance" | ||
"I took to working at press" | ||
"I see him still at work when I go home fromclub" | ||
Two pages from Poor Richard's Almanac for1736 | ||
"I regularly took my turn of duty there as a commonsoldier" | ||
"In the evening, hearing a great noise among them,the commissioners walk'd out to see what was the matter" | ||
"Our axes ... were immediately set to work to cutdown trees" | ||
"We now appeared very wide, and so far from eachother in our opinions as to discourage all hope of agreement" | ||
"You will find it stream out plentifully from thekey on the approach of your knuckle" | ||
Father Abraham in his study | ||
The end papers show, at the front, theFranklin arms and the Franklin seal; at the back, the medal givenby the Boston public schools from the fund left by Franklin forthat purpose as provided in the following extract from hiswill:
"I was born in Boston, New England, and owe myfirst instructions in literature to the free grammar-schoolsestablished there. I therefore give one hundred pounds sterling tomy executors, to be by them ... paid over to the managers ordirectors of the free schools in my native town of Boston, to be bythem ... put out to interest, and so continued at interest forever,which interest annually shall be laid out in silver medals, andgiven as honorary rewards annually by the directors of the saidfree schools belonging to the said town, in such manner as to thediscretion of the selectmen of the said town shall seem meet." |
From an engraving by J. Thomson from the original picture by J. A. Duplessis.
INTRODUCTION
