Project Gutenberg #20203
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
1791Franklin's account of his youth, printing career, civic projects, scientific experiments, and efforts to build better habits, in nineteen chapters.
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passage, and had, at the same time, drawn a bill for establishing and disciplining a voluntary militia, which I carried thro' the House without much difficulty, as care was taken in it to leave the Quakers at their liberty. To promote the association necessary to form the militia, I wrote a dialogue,[102] stating and answering all the objections I could think of to such a militia, which was printed, and had, as I thought, great effect.
[96] By chance.
[97] Pittsburg.
[98] Kingston, at the eastern end of Lake Ontario.
[99] Other accounts of this expedition and defeat may be found in Fiske's Washington and his Country, or Lodge's George Washington, Vol. 1.
[100] A famous Scotch philosopher and historian (1711-1776).
[101] Governor of Massachusetts and commander of the British forces in America.
[102] This dialogue and the militia act are in the Gentleman's Magazine for February and March, 1756.—Marg. note.