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1、AnElectronicClassicsSeriesPublicationTheAutobiographyofBenjaminFranklinwithintroductionandnoteseditedbyCharlesW.EliotisapublicationofTheElectronicClassicsSeries.ThisPortableDocumentfileisfurnishedfreeandwithoutanychargeofanykind.Anypersonusingthisdocu
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3、ctronictransmission,inanyway.TheAutobiographyofBenjaminFranklinwithintroductionandnoteseditedbyCharlesW.Eliot,TheElectronicClassicsSeries,JimManis,Editor,PSU-Hazleton,Hazleton,PA18202isaPortableDocumentFileproducedaspartofanongoingpublicationprojectto
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5、arenotcopyrightedwithintheUnitedStates;however,thefontsusedmaybe.Coverdesign:JimManisCopyright©1998-2012ThePennsylvaniaStateUniversityisanequalopportunityUniversity.TheAutobiographyofBenjaminFranklinTHEAUTOBIOGRAPHYOFworkasaprinter,butafterafewmonthsh
6、ewasinducedbyGovernorKeithtogotoLondon,where,findingKeith’sprom-BENJAMINFRANKLINisesempty,heagainworkedasacompositortillhewasbroughtbacktoPhiladelphiabyamerchantnamedDenman,WITHINTRODUCTIONANDNOTESEDITEDwhogavehimapositioninhisbusiness.OnDenman’sdeath
7、BYCHARLESW.ELIOT,L.L.D.,hereturnedtohisformertrade,andshortlysetupaprint-P.F.COLLIER&SONCOMPANY,NEWYORKinghouseofhisownfromwhichhepublished“ThePennsyl-(1909)vaniaGazette,”towhichhecontributedmanyessays,andwhichhemadeamediumforagitatingavarietyoflocalI
8、NTRODUCTORYNOTEreforms.In1732hebegantoissuehisfamous“PoorRichard’sAlmanac”fortheenrichmentofwhichheborrowedorcom-BenjaminFranklinwasborninMilkStreet,Boston,onJanu-posedthosepithyutterancesofworldlywisdomwhichareary6,1706.Hisfather,JosiahFrankl
