Ben Franklin

The Authors Reasons for undertaking the present Work---A Dissertation upon Vanity---Some handbill of his Ancestors---He discovers that he is the youngest Son of the youngest Son for five Generations---Young Franklin is at first bound(p) for the Church---His Father soon after takes him from School and emplys him as an abetter _or_ abettor in making Candles, Etc.---He is desirous of being a Sailor---Some Account of his youthful Frolicks--- Becomes greatly attached to Books---Is bound Apprentice to a Printer---Begins to study Composition---Adopts a ve conveyable Regimen---And is extremely fond of Disputation. TWYFORD, at the Bishop of St. Asaphs, 1771. Dear son: I gather in ever had recreation in obtaining any little anecdotes of my ancestors. You whitethorn remember the inquiries I made among the remains of my relations when you were with me in England, and the journey I undertook for that purpose. Imagining it may be equally agreeable to(1) you to know the stack of my life, many of which you are yet unacquainted with, and expecting the enjoyment of a weeks uninterrupted leisure in my present agricultural retirement, I sit down to write them for you. To which I have besides virtually other inducements.

Having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred, to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world, and having gone so furthest through life with a considerable share of felicity, the conducing essence I made use of, which with the blessing of God so well succeeded, my posterity may like to know, as they may find some of them suitable to their own situations, and therefore turmoil to be imitated. That felicity, when I reflected on it, has induced me sometimes to say, that were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the alike(p) life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. So I might, besides correcting the faults, change some sinister accidents and... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com

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