Benjamin Franklin by John T. Morse, Jr.
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Title: Benjamin Franklin
Author: John Torrey Morse, Jr.
Release Date: May 7, 2007 [EBook #21348]
Language: English
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[Illustration: Benj. Franklin]
American Statesmen
Standard Library Edition
[Illustration: Independence Hall, Philadelphia, 1776]
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
BY
JOHN T. MORSE, JR.
[Illustration]
BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1899
Copyright, 1898,
BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
All rights reserved.
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
The editor has often been asked: "Upon what principle have you constructed this series of lives of American statesmen?" The query has always been civil in form, while in substance it has often implied that the "principle," as to which inquiry is made, has been undiscoverable by the interrogator. Other queries, like pendants, have also come: Why have you not included A, or B, or C? The inference from these is that the querist conceives A, or B, or C to be statesmen