內容簡介
"Writing has been of Great Use to me in the Course of my Life," Benjamin Franklin said in his famous Autobiography. With characteristically calculated understatement, he attributed his enormous and varied successes to "my having learnt a little to scribble."
This collection of Franklin's works begins with letters sent from London (1757-1775) describing the events and diplomacy preceding the Revolutionary War. The volume also contains political satires, bagatelles, pamphlets, and letters written in Paris (1776-1785), where he represented the revolutionary United States at the court of Louis XVI, as well as his speeches given in the Constitutional Convention and other works written in Philadelphia (1785-1790), including his last published article, a searing satire against slavery.
Also included are the delightfully shrewd prefaces to Poor Richard's Almanack (1733-1758) and their worldly, pungent maxims that have entered our American culture. Finally, the classic Autobiography, Franklin's last word on his greatest literary creation-his own invented personality-is presented here in a new edition, completely faithful to Franklin's manuscript.
A companion volume includes the complete "Silence Dogood" series, "Busy-Body" essays, and a generous selection of his early writings, including letters to the press, satires, and pamphlets.
作者簡介
J. A. Leo Lemay, editor of this volume, is professor of colonial literature at the University of Delaware. The author of numerous works on Franklin, including The Canon of Benjamin Franklin 1722-1776: New Attributions and Reconsiderations, he has edited The Oldest Revolutionary and (with P. M. Zall) The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: A Genetic Text.
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以前在某事上我因不諳算術而感到羞愧,我在學校時算術曾兩次不及格,因此這時候我拿瞭考剋氏的算術書,自己從頭到尾很順利地學習瞭一遍。我也讀瞭捨勒和斯圖美關於航海的書籍,熟悉瞭這些書裏所包含的一點幾何學。除瞭這一點以外,我對幾何學從未作過更深入的研究。約在這個時候,我讀瞭洛剋的《人類悟性論》和波爾洛亞爾派的先生們所著的《思維術》。
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大約在這時候,我偶然看到瞭一本《旁觀者》的零本,是第三冊,在這以前,我從未曾看見過這個刊物。我買瞭這本散冊,反復讀瞭幾遍,十分中意,我認為文章寫得好極瞭,如果可能的話,我想模仿它的風格。因此我拿瞭幾篇論文把每一句的思想作一個簡單的摘要,接著把它擱置幾天,然後不看原書,用我自己想得起來的閤適辭句,把每一點摘錄下來的思想用完整的句子錶達齣來,又湊成整篇的論文,使它錶達得像以前一樣地完整。然後我把我的《旁觀者》與原來的比較,發現一些我的缺點,作瞭修正。我把其中的一些故事改寫成瞭詩,過一些時候,當我差不多已經遺忘瞭原來的散文的時候,我又把它們重新還原。有時候我也把我摘錄的思想搞亂瞭,經過幾個星期以後,設法把它們用最好的次序排列起來,然後再把它們寫成完整的句子,拼成論文。這樣做是為瞭教我如何排列思想的方法,在復原後與原文比較時,我發現瞭許多缺點,就加以改正。
Benjamin Franklin[本傑明·富蘭剋林] 英文原版 [精裝] [18--UP] mobi epub pdf txt 電子書 格式下載 2024