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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with Introduction and Notes Edited

By: Charles W. Eliot

...graphy of Benjamin Franklin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portabl... ...graphy of Benjamin Franklin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot , the Pennsylva- nia State University, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, H... ...turned to his former trade, and shortly set up a print ing house of his own from which he published “The Pennsyl vania Gazette,” to which he contrib... ...gent for the colony, this time to petition the King to resume the government from the hands of the proprietors. In London he actively opposed the pro ... ...nciple was inculcated or enforc’d, their aim seeming to be rather to make us Presbyterians than good citizens. At length he took for his text that ver... ...and enriching of the family. About the year 1734 there arrived among us from Ireland a young Presbyterian preacher, named Hemphill, who deliv ered wi... ...Those, however, of our congregation, who considered themselves as ortho dox Presbyterians, disapprov’d his doctrine, and were join’d by most of the o... ...se in which they began has been half consumed. In 1739 arrived among us from Ireland the Reverend Mr. Whitefield, who had made himself remarkable ther... ...ord and Edinburgh; returns to America. 1763 Makes a five months’ tour of the northern colonies for the Purpose of inspecting the post offices. 1764 De...

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