富蘭克林自傳

前言

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內(nèi)容概要

《富蘭克林自傳》是一部影響了幾代美國人、歷經(jīng)兩百余年經(jīng)久不衰的勵(lì)志奇書。它包含了人生奮斗與成功的真知灼見，以及諸種善與美的道德真諦，被公認(rèn)為是改變了無數(shù)人命運(yùn)的美國精神讀本。閱讀本書，與一個(gè)偉大心靈對(duì)話，收獲一份人生修養(yǎng)的智慧。

作者簡介

本杰明·富蘭克林是18世紀(jì)美國的實(shí)業(yè)家、科學(xué)家、社會(huì)活動(dòng)家、思想家、文學(xué)家和外交家。他還是一位優(yōu)秀的政治家，是美國獨(dú)立戰(zhàn)爭的老戰(zhàn)士。他參加起草了《獨(dú)立宣言》和美國憲法，積極主張廢除奴隸制度，深受美國人民的崇敬。

書籍目錄

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 Affairs12. Defense of the Province 13. Public Services and Duties (1749~1753) 14. Albany Plan of Union15. Quarrels with the Proprietary Governors16. Braddock’s Expedition17. 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 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) A Letter to Samuel Mather (1784) To Ezra Stiles a Religious Credo (1790) POEMS AND EPITAPH I Sing My Plain Country Joan Epitaph Written 1728

章節(jié)摘錄

　　for the benefit of his posterity. He wanted to help them by therelation of his own rise from obscurity and poverty to eminence andwealth. He is not unmindful of the importance of his public servicesand their recognition, yet his accounts-of these achievements aregiven only as a part of the story, and the vanity displayed is incidentaland in keeping with the honesty of the rocital. There is nothing of theimpossible in the method and practice of Franklin as he sets themforth. The youth who reads the fascinating story is astonished to findthat Franklin in his early years struggled with the same everydaypassions and difficulties that he himself experiences, and he loses thesense of discouragement that comes from a realization of his ownshortcomings and inability to attain.　　There are other reasons why the Autobiography should be anintimate friend of American young people. Here they may establish aclose relationship with one of the foremost Americans as well as oneof the wisest men of his age.　　The life of Benjamin Franklin is of importance to every Americanprimarily because of the part he played in securing the independenceof the United States and in establishing it as a nation. Franklin shareswith Washington the honors of the Revolution, and of the eventsleading to the birth of the new nation. While Washington was theanimating spirit of the struggle in the colonies, Franklin was its ablestchampion abroad. To Franklins cogent reasoning and keen satire, weowe the clear and forcible presentation of the American case inEngland and France; while to his personality and diplomacy as wellas to his facile pen, we are indebted for the foreign alliance and thefunds without which Washingtons work must have failed. Hispatience,　fortitude,　and　practical　wisdom,　coupled　withself-sacrificing devotion to the cause of his country, are hardly less.

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