Benjamin Franklin: His Contribution to the American Tradition |
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The American Philosophical Society , the first American scientific or “ learned ” society , was founded by Benjamin Franklin and is the chief repository of manuscripts and books by or relating ...
The American Philosophical Society , the first American scientific or “ learned ” society , was founded by Benjamin Franklin and is the chief repository of manuscripts and books by or relating ...
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Suppose one of our Indian nations should now agree to form a civil society ; each individual would bring into the stock of the society little more property than his gun and his blanket , for at present he has no other .
Suppose one of our Indian nations should now agree to form a civil society ; each individual would bring into the stock of the society little more property than his gun and his blanket , for at present he has no other .
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The combinations of civil society are not like those of a set of merchants , who club their property in different proportions for building and freighting a ship , and may therefore have some right to vote in the disposition of the ...
The combinations of civil society are not like those of a set of merchants , who club their property in different proportions for building and freighting a ship , and may therefore have some right to vote in the disposition of the ...
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | 27 |
THE LESSONS OF EXPERIENCE | 68 |
SELFIMPROVEMENT AND MUTUAL | 112 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Benjamin Franklin: His Contribution to the American Tradition Makers of the American tradition series |
| Author | I. Bernard Cohen |
| Publisher | Bobbs-Merrill, 1953 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 21 Aug 2006 |
| Length | 320 pages |
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