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Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes By: Frank Luther Mott (1886-1964) |
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1. Passages in italics are surrounded by underscores Words with gesperrt (wide) letter spacing are surrounded with =equals= 2. The editor of the original book marked some mispelled words with [ sic ], and these have been retained as written, uncorrected. Additional words found to be mispelled have been corrected and are listed under "Spelling Corrections" at the end of this e text. Additionally this work contains a large number of word spelling variations found to be valid in Webster's English Dictionary as well as several unverified spellings that appear multiple times and inconsistant word capitalization and hyphenation, all of which have been retained as printed. The interested reader will find an alphabetic "Word Variations" list at the end of this e text. 3. Numbered footnotes in Sections I VII of the Introduction have been relocated to the end of the Introduction and marked with an "i ". Lettered footnotes in the "Selections" have been relocated directly under the paragraph they pertain to. 4. Additional Transcriber's Notes are located at the "Poor Richards Almanack" facsimile reproduction beginning on page 225, and at the end of this e text. AMERICAN WRITERS SERIES HARRY HAYDEN CLARK General Editor AMERICAN WRITERS SERIES Volumes of representative selections, prepared by American scholars under the general editorship of Harry Hayden Clark, University of Wisconsin. Volumes now ready are starred. AMERICAN TRANSCENDENTALISTS, Raymond Adams, University of North Carolina WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, Tremaine McDowell, University of Minnesota JAMES FENIMORE COOPER, Robert E. Spiller, Swarthmore College JONATHAN EDWARDS, Clarence H. Faust, University of Chicago, and Thomas H. Johnson, Hackley School RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Frederic I. Carpenter, Harvard University BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Frank Luther Mott and Chester E. Jorgenson, University of Iowa ALEXANDER HAMILTON AND THOMAS JEFFERSON, Frederick C. Prescott, Cornell University BRET HARTE NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, Austin Warren, Boston University OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, Robert Shafer, University of Cincinnati WASHINGTON IRVING, Henry A. Pochmann, Mississippi State College HENRY JAMES, Lyon Richardson, Western Reserve University ABRAHAM LINCOLN HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, Odell Shepard, Trinity College JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, Norman Foerster, University of Iowa, and Harry H. Clark, University of Wisconsin HERMAN MELVILLE, Willard Thorp, Princeton University JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY THOMAS PAINE, Harry H. Clark, University of Wisconsin FRANCIS PARKMAN, Wilbur L. Schramm, University of Iowa EDGAR ALLAN POE, Margaret Alterton, University of Iowa, and Hardin Craig, Stanford University WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT, Claude Jones, Johns Hopkins University SOUTHERN POETS, Edd Winfield Parks, University of Georgia SOUTHERN PROSE, Gregory Paine, University of North Carolina HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Bartholow Crawford, University of Iowa MARK TWAIN, Fred Lewis Pattee, Rollins College WALT WHITMAN, Floyd Stovall, University of Texas JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER [Illustration: Pen drawing by Kerr Eby, after an engraving by Mason Chamberlin BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ÆT. 56] Benjamin Franklin REPRESENTATIVE SELECTIONS, WITH INTRODUCTION, BIBLIOGRAPHY, AND NOTES BY FRANK LUTHER MOTT Director, School of Journalism University of Iowa AND CHESTER E. JORGENSON Instructor in English University of Iowa [Illustration] AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY New York · Cincinnati · Chicago Boston · Atlanta COPYRIGHT, 1936, BY AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY All rights reserved MOTT AND JORGENSON'S FRANKLIN W... Continue reading book >>
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