《富蘭克林自傳》是一部影響了幾代美國人、歷經(jīng)兩百余年經(jīng)久不衰的勵志奇書。它包含了人生奮斗與成功的真知灼見,以及諸種善與美的道德真諦,被公認為是改變了無數(shù)人命運的美國精神讀本。閱讀本書,與一個偉大心靈對話,收獲一份人生修養(yǎng)的智慧。
本杰明·富蘭克林是18世紀美國的實業(yè)家、科學家、社會活動家、思想家、文學家和外交家。他還是一位優(yōu)秀的政治家,是美國獨立戰(zhàn)爭的老戰(zhàn)士。他參加起草了《獨立宣言》和美國憲法,積極主張廢除奴隸制度,深受美國人民的崇敬。
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE
1. Ancestry and Early Youth in Boston
2. Beginning Life as a Printer
3. Arrival in Philadelphia
4. First Visit to Boston
5. Early Friends in Philadelphia
6. First Visit to London
7. Beginning Business in Philadelphia
8. Business Success and First Public Service
PART TWO
9. Plan for Attaining Moral Perfection
PART THREE
10. Poor Richard’s Almanac and Other Activities AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE
1. Ancestry and Early Youth in Boston
2. Beginning Life as a Printer
3. Arrival in Philadelphia
4. First Visit to Boston
5. Early Friends in Philadelphia
6. First Visit to London
7. Beginning Business in Philadelphia
8. Business Success and First Public Service
PART TWO
9. Plan for Attaining Moral Perfection
PART THREE
10. Poor Richard’s Almanac and Other Activities
11. Interest in Public Affairs
12. Defense of the Province
13. Public Services and Duties (1749~1753)
14. Albany Plan of Union
15. Quarrels with the Proprietary Governors
16. Braddock’s Expedition
17. Franklin’s Defense of the Frontier
18. Scientific Experiments
19. Agent of Pennsylvania in London
PART FOUR
SELECTED WRITINGS
NEWSPAPER WRITINGS: 1722~1734
Silence Dogood, No. 7 (1722)
Preface to the Pennsylvania Gazette (1729)
A Witch Trial at Mount Holly
POOR RICHARD’S ALMANAC: 1733~1758
Preface to Poor Richard (1733)
Preface to Poor Richard (1739)
The Way to Wealth
PROJECTS: 1728~1749
A Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge among the British Plantations in America (1743)
OBSERVATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS: 1744~1785
An Account of the New Invented Pennsylvanian Fireplaces
Of Lightning (The Lightning Road)(1767)
ESSAYS: 1747~1768
The Speech of Polly Baker(1747)
Exporting of Felons to the Colonies (1751)
Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, and the Peopling of Countries (1751)
On the Price of Corn, and Management of the Poor (1766)
LETTERS: 1771~1775
What Sort of Husbands Would Be Fittest (1771)
To Jonathan Shipley (1775)
REVOLUTIONARY WRITINGS: 1766~1787
Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One; Presented privately to a late Minister, when he entered upon his Administration(1773)
To the Count de Vergennes, a Diplomatic Apology (1782)
Speech in the Convention, at the Constitution of
Its Deliberrations(1787)
WISE, PRACTICAL, AND HUMOROUS WRITINGS OF THE AGED SAGE: 1722~1790
To Joseph Priestley,On Moral Algebra, or Decision-making (1772)
The Ephemera (1778)
The Whistle (1779)
A Letter to Samuel Mather (1784)
To Ezra Stiles a Religious Credo (1790)
POEMS AND EPITAPH
I Sing My Plain Country Joan
Epitaph Written 1728