Benjamin Franklin´s Life and Writings
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Stevens, Henry) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Benjamin Franklin´s Life and Writings: A Bibliographical Essay During Thirty Years Mr Henry Stevens Has Lost No opportunity of adding to his collection of materials for the Life, Times and Works, of Franklin. Sooner or later everything saleable is believed to turn up in London, the centre of money and mutability. Here it is said most do congregate historical materials and historic doubts. At all events the present collection is a sample of what one may achieve in a single generation in London by good luck, persistence, vigilance and a dogged weakness for sacrificing other worldly gains to a pet object. Rightly or wrongly this has been done and the results are here for the first time summarized and set forth. Has the enthusiastic collector ´paid too dear for his whistle´? In bringing it together he has exhausted his three score, and locked up his ´staff of life.´ Whether foolish or wise let another generation pronounce the verdict. The intrinsic value must be tested and measured, like everything else, by posterity´s judgment of the extent and real historic importance of the collection. There is probably no man in all history playing a prominent part, who has been more unfortunate in his record than Benjamin Franklin. He was as careless as Shakspeare of his literary and scientific reputation. He was too busy in making history ever to overtake himself and find time to sit down quietly to record it. His pen was always on the wing, but his chickens never came home to roost. When once on the road to fame, he never more had a home of his own, but always lived for the public, the prey of interested friends, greedy editors, hungry publishers, enterprising booksellers and such like human parasites. Of all his many books published during his lifetime, Franklin never revised a proof sheet or saw one of them through the press himself. He invented, but secured no patient: he wrote but took no copyright. 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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