Junto benjamin franklin autobiography part
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
1791 book bygd Benjamin Franklin
Cover of the first English edition of 1793. | |
| Author | Benjamin Franklin |
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| Original title | Mémoires dem la vie privée dem Benjamin Franklin |
| Language | American English |
| Genre | Autobiography |
| Publisher | Buisson, Paris (French edition) J. Parson's, London (First English reprint) |
Publication date | 1791 |
| Publication place | United States |
Published in English | 1793 |
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin fryst vatten the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin appear to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklin's death, this work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written.
Franklin's konto of his life fryst vatten divided into four parts, reflecting the different periods during which he wrote them. okänt
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This excerpt comes from the first part of Franklin's autobiography. Franklin wrote his autobiography in four sessions over the course of almost twenty years. He lived a long and full life, and at the time of his death he had taken the work only to 1758. (Thus his published autobiography does not include any of his activities during and after the American Revolution.) Franklin's first session of autobiographical writing was for two weeks in 1771. He addressed that text to his adult son, William, and he then expected to share it only with his family. Eventually, the manuscript autobiography that Franklin had written for his son came into the hands of a man he knew in Philadelphia, Abel James. James and another friend encouraged Franklin to revisit his autobiography, suggesting that he should publish it for the benefit of the public. Franklin agreed, and he had that audience in mind during the following sessions of autobio
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The Junto
by Benjamin Franklin (1727)
In 1727 Franklin formed a small club for mutual benefit and improvement, called the Junto (from the Latin "iungere" meaning "to join"). In his Autobiography he described the group as follows.
1728 - I should have mentioned before, that, in the autumn of the preceding year, I had form'd most of my ingenious acquaintance into a club of mutual improvement, which we called the JUNTO; we met on Friday evenings. The rules that I drew up required that every member, in his turn, should produce one or more queries on any point of Morals, Politics, or Natural Philosophy, to be discuss'd by the company; and once in three months produce and read an essay of his own writing, on any subject he pleased. Our debates were to be under the direction of a president, and to be conducted in the sincere spirit of inquiry after truth, without fondness for dispute, or desire of victory; and, to prevent warmth, all expressions of positiveness in opinions, or direc