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The total number of questions at the end of each chapter does notnecessarily correspond to the total number of paragraphs in thechapter.
Text is missing from the printed book at the end of Paragraph 19 in Chapter X.
Franklin taking home his paper.
Reconciliation of Franklin with his Brother.
THE
LIFE
OF
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
ILLUSTRATED BY
TALES, SKETCHES, AND ANECDOTES.
ADAPTED TO THE USE OF SCHOOLS.
WITH ENGRAVINGS.
PHILADELPHIA:
DESILVER, THOMAS & CO.,
No. 253 MARKET STREET.
1836.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1832, by SamuelG. Goodrich, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court ofMassachusetts.
PREFACE.
The following Preface to the Life of Columbus will explain the plan ofthe series, of which this is the third volume:—
"There is no kind of reading more attractive than biography, and, ifproperly treated, there is none more instructive. It appears,therefore, to be peculiarly fitted to the purposes of education; itreadily excites the curiosity and awakens the interest of the pupil,and, while it stores his mind with facts, dates and events, displaysto his view the workings of the human heart, and makes him betteracquainted with himself and mankind.
"In the selection of subjects for a biographical series of works foryouth, the editor has been led, by two considerations, to prefer thosewhich belong to our own country. In the first place, it is moreparticularly necessary that our youth should be made acquainted withthe lives of those men who were associated with the history of theirnative land; and, in the second place, no country can afford happiersubjects for biography than this. There are few such lives as those ofColumbus, Washington, and Franklin, in the annals of any nation.
"In the preparation of the wo