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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was a happy one. "We are grown old together, and if she has any faults, I am so used to them that I don't perceive them." The following is a stanza from one of Franklin's own songs written for the Junto: "Of their Chloes and Phyllises poets may prate, I sing my plain country Joan, These twelve years my wife, still the joy of my life, Blest day that I made her my own."
[63] Here the first part of the Autobiography, written at Twyford in 1771, ends. The second part, which follows, was written at Passy in 1784.
[64] After this memorandum, Franklin inserted letters from Abel James and Benjamin Vaughan, urging him to continue his Autobiography.
[65] Franklin expressed a different view about the duty of attending church later.