Scenes From the Life of Benjamin Franklin (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Scenes From the Life of Benjamin Franklin The paintings which form the subject of this volume constitute the frieze in the entrance hall of the Franklin Union Building on Berkeley Street in Franklin´s native town, Boston. It is fitting that reference should be made to the fund which has produced Franklin Union and to the work which this institution is accomplishing. No better description could be given of the origin of the bequest than that penned by Franklin himself in the codicil of his will written in June, 1789, from which the following paragraphs are selected. "It having long been a fixed political opinion of mine, that in a democratical State, there ought to be no Offices of Profit, for the reasons I had given in an Article of my drawing in our Constitution, it was my intention when I accepted the Office of President to devote the appointed Salary to some public Uses,... I do hereby... direct that the certificates I have for what remains due to me of that Salary be sold towards raising the Sum of Two thousand Pounds Sterling, to be disposed of as I am now about to order." "I was born in Boston, New England and owe my first instructions in Literature, to the free Grammar Schools established there: I have therefore already considered those Schools in my Will. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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