True to His Home: A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin

True to His Home: A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin

True to His Home: A Tale of the Boyhood of FranklinThis volume is an historical fiction, but...
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Author: Butterworth, Hezekiah,1839-1905
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Language: English
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True to His Home: A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin

True to His Home: A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin

$106.23 $53.09

True to His Home: A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin

$106.23 $53.09
Author: Butterworth, Hezekiah,1839-1905
Format: eBook
Language: English

True to His Home: A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin

This volume is an historical fiction, but the plan of it was suggested by biography, and is made to include the most interesting and picturesque episodes in the home side of the life of Benjamin Franklin, so as to form a connected narrative or picture of his public life. I have written no book with a deeper sympathy with my subject, for, although fiction, the story very truthfully shows that the good intentions of a life which has seemed to fail do not die, but live in others whom they inspire. Uncle Benjamin Franklin, "the poet," who was something of a philosopher, and whose visions all seemed to end in disappointment, deeply influenced his nephew and godson, Benjamin Franklin, whom he morally educated to become what he himself had failed to be. The conduct of Josiah Franklin, the father of Benjamin Franklin, in comforting his poor old brother in England by naming his fifteenth child for him, and making him his godfather, is a touching instance of family affection, to the memory of which the statesman was always true. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 26442
Author: Butterworth, Hezekiah
Release Date: Aug 27, 2008
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Illustrator: Pierce, H. Winthrop (Herman Winthrop), 1850-

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