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Benjamin Franklin, by Benjamin Franklin
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Title: Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Editor: Frank Woodworth Pine
Illustrator: E. Boyd Smith
Release Date: December 28, 2006 [EBook #20203]
Language: English
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[Illustration: FRANKLIN ARMS]
[Illustration: FRANKLIN SEAL]
[Illustration: Franklin at the Court of Louis XVI
"He was therefore, feasted and invited to all the court parties. At these he sometimes met the old Duchess of Bourbon, who, being a chess player of about his force, they very generally played together. Happening once to put her king into prize, the Doctor took it. 'Ah,' says she, 'we do not take kings so.' 'We do in America,' said the Doctor."--Thomas Jefferson.]
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
OF
BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS by E. BOYD SMITH
EDITED by FRANK WOODWORTH PINE
[Illustration: Printers Mark]
New York HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1916
Copyright, 1916,
BY HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
June, 1922
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